Relationships:

What a time it was, when you loved your brother just because he was your brother but now things are different. The factors depending on the strength of relationships have evolved as the time passed. Now you love some one just because of his status. You respect people because of money and what’s more you keep strong relationships because of social and financial position of the person in question.

Charles is deeply grieved by this and has portrayed his annoyance in many novels he wrote.

Let’s take his book Great Expectations, Pip and Joe are best of friends as long as Pip is living with Joe as his apprentice but once his fate takes him to London to become a gentleman Pip starts resenting meeting Joe and his other old friends. He stays at the hotel instead of his own bedroom in his sister’s house. He hardly takes his time off to meet his childhood companions. Mr. Pumblecook, his sister’s friend always shows indifference towards Pip and keeps on telling him his negativities but once Pip gets a fortune and goes to London to become a gentleman he is treated really grandly. All because of money and social status.

We are doing the same thing ourselves, we never meet those of our blood who are poor just because it will spoil our image and it’s against our values. We don’t care then that what relationships do we have with them.  

What days were they when you spent time with someone to strengthen your relationship, not to strengthen your financial position. In “The Christmas Carol” it is shown how two friends meet each other in a street, exchange a couple of words of greetings and that’s that. Even the money lover, Scrooge, is astonished at this behavior. They had no financial problems to discuss that was why this meeting was so brief.

Love is now nothing more than a word. And respect is bought with money not with character. Mr. Bumble, the beadle, was respected; not because he had a graceful and divine character but because he was rich. He claimed to love the matron, Mrs. Corney, because he clearly saw that by marrying her he could be the owner of what she had.

In "Great Expectations" Miss Havisham's lover loved her because of her money and not because of her soul.

This sort of thing is found in abundance in our society so we should link our relationships with bonds of true and pure love. Stories of such materialistic relationships are filling up newspapers and this is not exactly what humanity demands of us. Let our selves live a peace full loving life; let every one live to the fullest because dollars can never buy the peace which true love can.

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