Great Expectations - Making Connections + Picture

  The 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada depicts a woman named Andrea who's career is revolved around journalism. She lives a simple, yet satisfying life with friends and loved ones, until the day she goes in for an interview with the magazine company named "Runway". She meets her unreasonable boss and another woman she is to work with. Although the job pays well and will benefit her immensely in the future, Andrea feels that she is soon dedicating all her time towards it. After time passes, she grows farther apart from her loved ones and even they start noticing that she seems distracted and unable to spend quality time with those who had loved her most. In the end, she ends up betraying her coworker to impress her boss, but realizes all the harm she has caused by taking this job, and quits.

     This movie was many correlations to the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, for example, many of the characters have the same characteristics and are in similar situations. Pip and Andrea are both the protagonists of their plots and grow farther and farther apart from their family and friends because of one dream. Pip's dream is to become a gentleman for Estella and Andrea's is to have a job that will benefit her in the future. Both become selfish and only think about their own dreams, not leaving room for anyone else. Some of the similar characters are listed below:

Pip - Andrea

Biddy - Coworker

Estella - Andrea's job

Pip's family - Andrea's friends

     The main idea and moral of both these plots was what the most important similarity is between the two. The theme that to pursue a dream, it may have to take much of your time and effort, but you do not have to make that dream swallow up your entire past.