Compare and Contrast Great Expectations with Patch Adams Discuss how both pieces relate to the motif
... Two such related pieces are the movie Patch Adams, and the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. In Patch Adams, the title character strives toward becoming a doctor and opening the Gezundheit Institute, a free hospital in which doctors treat patients’ afflictions, but also their souls. ... So, while the plots of these two stories are entirely different, they are related because they both share the attributes of a quest story. ... In Great Expectations, as discussed earlier, Pip longs for the money and means to be a gentleman. ... Likewise, Patch Adams strives for a goal of his own. ... Patch hopes to graduate from medical school, and then take his degree and start the Gezundheit Institute. Under those circumstances he can finally do what he has wanted to do since adolescence, truly help people, both their mind and their spirit. ... In Great Expectations, Pip finds the good fortune he’s been looking for, in the form of the London lawyer named Mr. ... Likewise, Patch Adams is well on his way to his degree because he is an excellent student who gets excellent grades. Unfortunately for Patch, and staying within the pattern, a vindictive dean, (Dean Walcott) puts down obstacle after obstacle, finally declaring that he will not allow Patch to graduate. So, although both Pip and Patch embark on journey’s, it is not an easy, stress less quest for either of them, it is a roller coaster ride of ups and downs, and all in all a very bumpy road. ... In Patch Adams, his friends Carin and Truman encourage him to keep going, keep striving toward the Gezundheit institute. In Patch’s darkest hour, when Dean Walcott tells him he will not graduate, Truman asks Patch “And you’re going to let that die” (Patch Adams) He’s talking of course about Patch’s dream.