Analyzing Great Expectations

Charles Dickens tells a variety of themes throughout the novel Great Expectations. However, they all can be tied to one general theme throughout. Wealth and social status are nothing important, what really matters are who your friends are and that you and your friends share a mutual respect. If you have friends who will be there for you through the best and worst of times, you can make it through anything. Humans are fragile, we need support, something (or someone) to rely on; we need friendship. We can achieve anything, reach any goal, walk any distance, if we have somebody there to walk with us. If you give up your friends, you might as well give up on yourself, we can't live life alone.