From the novel; Great Expectation
This question is based on Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations.
Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly….I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor…I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
The writer of the above passage is
- jealous of rich and influential people
- overwhelmed by the power of money
- contemptuous of the poor
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indirectly exposing the negative influence of money
