Charles Dickens and Mulk Raj Anand both base their novels, Great Expectations and The Untouchables, around the central theme of social class. The personalities of the characters, Pip and Pundit, undergo some transformations as they are influenced by a series of characters they encounter in the text. Authors use a number of literary techniques to convey the character's values, beliefs, and ideas in their novels. These literary techniques reveal to readers that the characters' attitudes toward high social class and wealth are what ultimately lead them to compromise their family for their own selfish values. This is suggested through the characters, various literary techniques and the use of narration/dialogue. At the beginning of the novel, the protagonists of Great Expectations and Untouchable are both ignorant and unaware of their social class, or even, in Pundit's case, that he belongs to a type of social class. Since none of the characters know a better lifestyle, they are happy with who they are and the life they know. Pundit "loves to play with other scavengers, [he] looks forward to it every day after his rounds" (page 12), through this use of dialogue Anand is suggesting that Pundit is content with his life and is happy too with the simplicity of being able to play with friends. Like Anand, Dickens uses dialogue to draw the reader's attention to Pip's joy when Mr. Joe takes him to the beach to read. The author's intention was to highlight how happy Pip is at this time since, even though it is a simple thing to do, it has always been "[Pip's] favorite time of the week" (page 199). As the protagonists' lives continue, they encounter both more sophisticated and subordinate characters...... middle of paper....... [he] ha[s] disgrace[d] [himself]” (Anand, Page 177). These literary techniques shed light on how wealth can cause a person to change; in both novels, the authors convey that the rich should not be envied since their lives are not what they seem. Great Expectations and Untouchables both reveal the authors' dark attitudes towards social class. Through the use of literary techniques, the authors suggest that a high social class should not be valued rather than being contented and happy. In Great Expectations, Pip finally comes to sense how his selfishness was affecting not only him, but his loved ones, making him realize what should be valued in life. Readers believe that Dickens's overall message was that one cannot be truly happy if one does not have a loving family with whom to share experiences and opportunities. Unlike Dickens, Anand's final message is this....