The Role Of Working Class In Great Expectations By Charles Dickens

The research focuses on the condition and the suffering of the worker class during the Victorian England when people lived by strict rules, the life of working class become worse after revelation especially the children’s condition, the workers class had lower income than the people who belong to different classes and they lived in more unhealthy and miserable life. In 1845 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Engels, He focused on both the workers' wages and their living conditions he said: An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle where before the introduction of mills
(1779–1787), 4,408 out of 10,000 children died before reaching the age of five, and after their introduction the figure rose to 4,738. Before the introduction of mills, 1,006 out of 10,000 adults died before reaching 39 years old, and after their introduction the death rate rose to 1,261 out of 10,000. ( p.) Social class played a important role in the society depicted in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. He show the different between the upper and low class in the working class and their values and morals. The upper class, they belong to wealthy families at court often they didn’t need to work, inherited

In most cases, the autobiographical reading of any text can be limiting, but in relation to Dickens and in the case of a Marxist interpretation of Great Expectations, the autobiographical content becomes more pertinent. From a Marxist view, Great Expectations advances the classical anti-Hegelian Marxist theory that material circumstances shape ideas. Or in the words of Marx, ‘It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.’ (Nation Master, June