social class in the 1800s

In the 19th central social class was very important. there were three: the upper class, the middle class(working class) and the lower class. 

The upper class 

Those included

•  the royal family
• spiritual lords 
• temporale lords 
• great officers of the states - the Knights, Baronets, country gentleman.  

The upper class were also know as the aristocrats. Those were people who were of higher power and authority in the social starters. they were usually not involved in any manual work.

The middle/working class 

Those enclosed (was divided into 2 groups the upper middle class and the lower middle class) 

Upper middle class 

• Doctors 
• Loyers
• Bankers 
• Large business owners 
• Engineers
• Judges

The lower middle class 

• Small business owner
• Civil servants 
• Shopkeepers     

Lower class 

Those included 

• Factory workers 
• Street sweeper 
• Labor
• Miners 

In the book great expectation by Charles dickens, we are introduced to the different classes. we see that pip is from a family of lower class people. 

(hat I was a common labouring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night, and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way. (p.105)). 

its clear to me as the leader that in the 19th century different classes used to stick with there own kind. in great expectation we see this when pip's word is turned upside down when he fist meets miss havisham and realises that not everyone is like him, and there are people who were better off. he starts to compeer his life with what he has just seen and he is ashamed. we see letter on in the book this longing to become a gentleman and which is a direct results of spending time with miss Havisham and Estella. 

in the book we also see that miss havisham and  Bentley Drummle as been in the upper class.they are both very wealthy and also very abusive in there own ways. in Miss Havisham case she is more emotionally abusive (some might say she emotionally abuse Estella and pip) and in Bentley drummle is more physically abusive ( abusive towered Estella).

//Great expectation by Charles Dickens