Great Expectations

Great Expectations is a work of critical realism full of romantic elements. The work mainly describes the status quo of classes in Victorian England after the Industrial Revolution, and reveals the social reality of the Victorian period. Dickens despised the hereditary aristocracy and respected the people who made their fortunes by labor. The living standards of the working people at the bottom and the upper classes in the book are vastly different, but their humanity and morality are far superior to those of the aristocracy. The sharp contrast between PIP's country life and London life in the book, as well as the change of his personality, reflect the author's criticism of the upper class flashy society, as well as his yearning and calling for the natural and simple country life.