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==In my opinion Charles Dickens looked at social class as an oppressor of sorts, and at the time it may have been. Dickens saw social class as seperation, opression, and power. People only care about doing the best they could and people weren't likely to help you climb the ladder of success. It seems that they are just trying to push you off.==

==The rich spat on the lower classes. They believe they were failures and bums whether they were or not, but they still felt threatened.The so called nobility didn't want the poor to gain any power and knock them down a peg as Pip did in //Great Expectations//. One of the only reasons Pip did manage to get anywhere was because his first mentor, Mrs. Joe, was insane and he had some rigid determination. He wanted to get out of Mrs. Joe's cruel clutches. I think he was even more determined to get out of the "haunted" house after she was killed. For the most part, until he became a gentleman, he didn't associate with the likes of Estella, but instead he ended up with convicted murders and thieves.==

==Pip was not encouraged by many people up his climb up the ladder of success in society but was only pushed down from it over and over again. But he kept on pushing upwards. Most people in that era woud have not even tried to gain a higher class in society for fear of being threatened and such. Usually you and your family and their family stayed in the same class, trade, and city. You weren't encouraged to move from them either.==

==The main part of the classes then and even some now was money, and money is and was power. If you had money you were more respected and had more control of things (usually through manipulation) and probably would keep that money in the family for along time and give them advantages as well. It was unlikely that you were born into poverty and gained money.==

==Pip was able to move up in society with the help of Joe and Miss Havisham. As it has been said, it was very difficult to do such a thing, but Pip successfully did so. He, along with the others in his high class, looked down upon the lower class once he moved up. But to be able to move up in life was amazing. Pip was proud of himself for making such accomplishments, as shown in the book. He says, "I soon contracted expensive habits and began to spend an amount of money that within a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous." He struggled to do that and was pushed down time and time again by the comments of the people he loved, but he kept on climbing that ladder to the top and made it.==