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This paper looks at irony in Great Expectations. Charles Dickens uses irony to show the truth about Victorian social class. Pip rises from a poor blacksmith's boy to a rich gentleman. But his rise does not make him a better person. The paper studies key scenes with Pip, Joe Gargery, Estella, Miss Havisham, Magwitch, and Wemmick. These scenes show that money and manners do not equal true worth. The paper also looks at earlier studies on class and satire in Dickens. It ends with the idea that irony is Dickens's main tool for social criticism in the novel.
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