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Great Expectations - themes

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This video explains the themes within Great Expectations. These themes provide an insight into Pip’s life and progress. They also provide a rich picture of the social situation of 19th-century Britain. Great Expectations contains a number of themes, such as ambition and self-improvement, social class, and crime, guilt and innocence.

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