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... Such a time left it difficult for society to be sure of its moral inclinations as the Church’s views were constantly changing. The Victorian moral revolution however, did not depend on Christianity but on the changing class system. ... Indeed class issues became a moral argument which many Victorian novelists explored in their work and will be explored later. ... Throughout the novel, Pip’s environment seems black and immoral, from the Kent marshes and the graveyard where we first find him, to London. ... He realises this towards the end of the text and mends his ways becoming happy and restoring the story’s moral outlook. ... It would be interesting to investigate whether an author like Dickens found the idea of a compulsory moral restricting. In previous years, the Romantic writers had discovered the ‘moral potency of a child’ , in their writing to illustrate the injustices and immorality of society. ... So Dickens, whether it be deliberate or not, has gone against the sexual taboos of his age and presented what some may call an immoral novel. ... Cohen describes this as a ‘medical condition’ and a ‘moral sin’, yet it seems Dickens has included it to represent Pip’s fear of stealing and of his first meeting with Magwitch. ... Pip even compares himself to the criminal in this quotation, as if he has done something immoral. ... Another factor of the Victorian age was commented on by Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle when he wrote, ‘Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart as well as in hand’ . ... Seeing this as a didactic text, Dickens’s novel is showing the reader another moral. ... It is ironic that such a sinister character as Magwitch had shown nothing but kindness to Pip since they had met on the marshes. It seems puzzling to the reader that such a figure could change to being Pip’s benefactor and father figure. This is one of the common traits of Victorian novels to restore unquestionable moral high ground at the end. ... Immoral characters such as these are dealt with in the way that a Victorian audience would have come to recognise, by death or imprisonment.