Absolute Power Corrupted In Great Expectations By Charles Dickens

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” John Dalberg-Acton, 1887. Power comes in many forms, whether it be popularity, politically, or superiority, these positions tend to corrupt. One form of power that towers over all others is money. Once a person has economic power they can and will influence what happens around them, and soon enough they will climb to the top of the social ladder. Essentially having absolute power, which certainly corrupts. In Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations Dickens makes light of this topic. Throughout the novel he makes clear that people of higher social class tend to be cruel and corrupt. One of the first instances of this is when Pip goes to the Satis household for the first time. When