In the ‘Great Expectations’, the author Charles Dickens uses a character to describe love. “What real love is. It is the blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!”(Page 188). This is Miss Havisham’s definition of love. Pip, an antagonist and one of the important characters, if not the main character has gone to visit Miss Havisham, the mother of Estella who Pip has fallen for. Miss Havisham tells Pip to love Estella and defines the type of love Pip should have for Estella. In this quote Charles Dickens has used various literary devices such as Parallel Structure. We see that he describes what
