RAPPING UP

The main theme that Charles Dickens wanted to convey in Great Expectations is that money doesn't mean happiness. He wants to show how the external layers of the world like clothes, money, and education are not directly related to how happy you are. Instead happiness comes from self-actualization and the relationships surrounding you. Charles Dickens uses a likeable character to help us realize that sometimes it is better to just be ourselves and be low class than to try to be high class but not have any fun in life. Something I found interesting was that Magwitch was one of the lowest class people in the novel but he made two of the high class people: Estella and Pip. He gave Pip the rescources to become a gentleman and Estella was his daughter thus he fueled them into who they became yet he was still low class. Truly happiness doesn't come from riches but from being true to who you are and who you want to be.