1. Victorian Class Distictions - Great Expectations
His family was unfairly forced to go to debtors' prison while he worked to save them. ... Pip continuously alienates himself from his family, who is of lower class, because he sees them as a part of the system. ... He sees himself as superior to his own lower class family. ... He thinks that he has so risen in the system thus far that "[He] cannot adequately express what pain it give [Him] to think that Estella show any favor to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so far below the average " (Dickens 310). ...
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- Grade Level: High School