Dickens is one of the most acclaimed writers of his time and ours as well. Although the English admired with his work, he reprimanded this society he grew up in. He was a man of opinions and views about Victorian England, which he expressed symbolically through the characters and events in his widely, read stories. Great Expectations is considered to be one of Dicken's most emotionally accurate self-portrait, making it easy for him to express his views through a character very much like himself. Why, though, was such a successful writer unhappy with the society that favored the rich and powerful?
             Dickens disapproval of society was justified, however. The writing of Great Expectations, and the construction of its main character, Pip, can be recognized as an endeavor to come to terms with the painful reality of his childhood. Dickens critique of society is consequently a result of the resentful feelings towards the society lived, in which he blamed for his tainted childhood.
             Dickens was particularly passionate with the injustices the poor suffered, these being the same injustices he suffered growing up. His family's continual economic instability, resulting in his father's imprisonment due to financial debt, sets the stage for his novel's disapproval of society. Dickens states in Great Expectations, "In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice." Division in social classes, as distinct as they were in Victorian England, was another thing Dickens refused to accept but as forced to, "... one [man's] a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Divisions among such must come, and must be met as they come." He found it absurd for the poor to have such a hard time moving up in the world. Pip comments on this problem while hopelessly dreaming of a life only the rich live, stati...