To be speaking of friends and not reminisce Charles Dickens Pip and Herbert is just not possible.
Great Expectations is a tribute to relationships and a satire on human failings. But through out one relationship that shines, passes through the test of time with flying colours and becomes the heart of the story is the friendship between Pip and his room mate Herbert Pocket.
The very manner in which the latter endears the former as 'my dear Handel' wins our heart and makes him the most desirable friend in english fiction.
This pair doesn't do great feats or go to great lengths to prove their fealty, but it is in the humble and simple manner in which they stick to each other through thick and thin, and look out for each other, which mak this pair so special and commendable.
Goes on to prove we don't have to be a super hero to be a good friend.
Hmm ... do super heroes have good friends? Or are they somewhere on a different sphere?
ReplyDeleteActually, when you mentioned Great Expectations (one of my favorites) I thought you were going to refer to Pip and Joe Gargary and with them in mind, I was wondering how you saw them complement one another ... or was their friendship based on a common "challenge", Pip's sister and Joe's wife ...
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