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Great Expectations


I have always meant to read the great literary classics and finally I managed to read Great Expectations.
It is truly the lesson of life in general. When we are young we have no expectations, then we grow up and we have these great expectations which we outgrow very late in life. We have this idea of wanting to be better than what we are and where we come from, to advance to something great, we chase social improvement but then again is it worth it?
Perhaps Charles Dickens sums up the upper class society very well, as people who constantly use lower class people to their own advantage and fancies, like in Pips case, and everything he "thought" or perhaps "hoped dearly" didn't turn out the way he dreamed it would.

In a nutshell it is the great misconception we live under- a romanticised life which we all dream of. Life will never be as glamorous as we hope it will be, as Pip finds out. It will be a simple life, like the lives of Joe and Biddy.

Charles Dickens gave us some excellent advice through Pips character in this book, its time we accepted the good lives we are already so blessed to have!

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