The social commentary that is presented is the distinction between the social class of the rich and the poor.
The aswct of the legal system that Dickens reveal here through magwitch's experience is that the legal justice system itself is shown to be violent, unfair and open to manipulation.
<h3>What was Great Expectations about?</h3>
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells the story an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and is humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of literature's more colorful characters: Mr. Havisham
Instead of creating a community in which everyone can enjoy life, Dickens emphasizes the injustice of wealth distribution. Dickens represents the poor with two wretched children named Ignorance and Want.
Dickens explores Victorian England's class system throughout Great Expectations, from the most despicable criminals (Magwitch) to the poor peasants of the marsh country (Joe and Biddy) to the middle class (Pumblechook) to the very rich (Miss Havisham).
Dickens was a lifelong critic of the iniquities of a social system that produced criminals and then punished them, his contempt most succinctly summed up in Mr. Bumble's pronouncement in Oliver Twist that "the law is unfair." and expressed at length in Bleak House, his great satire of the courts of chancery.
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