Great Expectations

Great Expectation by Charles Dickens

40.  Dickens utilized satire brilliantly in his novels.  What is satire?  What was he satirizing?

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The standard definition of satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Dickens largely satirizes the English class system in Victorian England. Pip desperately wants to move up in class to be a "gentleman". Pip, however, discovers that a higher class does not make a man.