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Social class and birthright determain your place in life in the novel //Great Expectations by Charles Dickens//. Dicken's dimenstrates social class, birthright and finances and how they affect the lives of each charater.

Social class is the statis you have in the social world and the power you hold. "There's power here" said Mr. jaggers, coolly tracing out the sinews with his forefinger." Joe's social class wouldn't be that high since he's a blacksmith in a small town. But he unlike Pip doesn't care, he's happy being at the bottom of the social pyramid. But the class your in is affected by your birthright.

Birthright is what your born into. "I took the oppurtunity of being alone in the court-yard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots." said Pip. Like's Pip's born into a common, family and was then adopted by a blacksmith "family".Mrs. Joe's birthright is a house wife of a blacksmith. But she's so full of herself, it doesn't really matter who she is because she's so into herself. "There's power here" said Mr. jaggers, coolly tracing out the sinews with his forefinger."

Then finances also have to play in people's class. If your rich you already get social class. You become something. ."In my confidence in my resources, I would willing have taken Herberts expenses on myself; but he was proud. said Pip" Pip becomes a social light after he becomes rich from his inheritence from Magwitch. In //Great Expectations// money controls eveything.

So your social class and birthright determain your place in life. It runs the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Joe, Pip,Estella, and every other character in //Great Expectations//. Whether you have money or not, your statis is relavent. But most people are not as lucky as Pip because he gained his statis from money that he didn't earn. So if you have statis, class, money, or birthright you have it made in //Great Expectations//.