Estella Havisham

When they send him to Mrs. Havisham’s house, he realizes her and her daughter Estella are more of a higher class. He realizes this because of the way they emphasize things. Pip wants to be in the same class as them and join them. He is tired of feeling different from others. He feels embarrassed because he is in the lower class and…

In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Estella is constrained by her past, and she resents it because of the lasting impact her past left on her. The meaning of the novel is that the genuine relationships and being an honorable person through good deeds is more important than wealth and social class. Estella attained her elite social class and wealth because she was brought up by Havisham, her adoptive mother. But Havisham 's upbring results in her having no heart, she is isolated from…

The fire at Miss Havishams home was Pips morbid fantasy. After Miss Havisham telling Pip that Estella was trained to break Pips heart. Pip had a fantasy that Miss Havisham was in her wedding dress and him coming to save her. He saves Miss Havisham but she is badly burned everywhere she wakes up in the hospital and says the the three things over and over again. "What have I done" , "when she first came, I meant to save her from misery like mine" and "take the pencil and write under her name.…

Dickens in the year 1860. The suffering that Miss Havisham faced early on in her life may have caused her to cause suffering in the life of Pip and Estella. In the novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Dickens shows how suffering in one’s life may lead them to cause suffering in the life of another. Estella’s the girl adopted by Miss Havisham so Miss Havisham could inflict suffering on her and boys that entered Estella's life. Miss Havisham on her wedding day was left by her fiance at…

Estella is a puppet controlled by Miss Havisham for the purpose of breaking men’s hearts by being incredibly attractive but having no feelings for them. One way she does this is by making Estella high class. Once, when Pip asks where Estella is, Miss Havisham replies “Abroad, educating for a lady; far out of reach; prettier than ever; admired by all who see her.” This statement tells of what Miss Havisham is doing to Estella to educate her to be upper class. She sends off Estella so that Estella…

like Miss Havisham, was wasting away with no one to take care of them. Miss Havisham realized she had wrong Estella and wanted to help Pip and Herbert. The promise that Miss Havisham and Pip made to each other about their secret would die with the house. I feel that Dickens included the fire at Miss Havisham’s home because it symbolized a change in her life. First the house is old and in need of repair. Miss Havisham is old and need to repent for all the harm she has done Estella. In order…

Having been adopted by Miss Havisham at a young age, Estella most likely wasn’t surrounded by their love and affection from her birth parents. Although Miss Havisham tries to show Estella love and affection, Miss Havisham is incapable of this. When Miss Havisham was left at the altar by her fiance, her outlook on men changed. She fought to be with this man, not listening to others who warned her…

visiting Miss Havisham’s house and met Estella, he started to think differently. Realizing there is disparity between people of a higher class; Miss Havisham and Estella, than people of a lower class; Pip and Joe. ( Pg.58) When Pip visits Miss Havisham, Estella puts him down for being a common laboring boy, this makes Pip feel self-conscious about his social class. He treats Joe in a different way and makes fun of him for not having an education, like Estella does to him. (Pg. 74) When Pip…

Miss Havisham. Her actions are not directly acted towards Compeyson, but directly acted towards others that didn't do anything wrong. In the beginning of the book Pip is a guinea pig, almost like an experiment to Miss Havisham. To see how Estella; a cold hearted girl, treats Pip. Miss Havisham has raised Estella to treat men badly. “Well. You can break his heart.” (Dickens 59) Estella is taught to lead on Pip and Infatuate him into liking her. Since Compeyson broke her heart, Miss Havisham…

Miss Havisham is one of the most strange and grotesque characters in history, the "wicked witch" The fairy tale. Estella in the strict sense of What was more, it does not seek the things are sorry for having to keep away from the girl suffer greatly. She has a love for all men, that no one, however, no chastening for the bake-house, and the punishments of Estella. Miss Havisham is proud, beautiful, passionate, reckless Compeyson which were used against it. Internet bad, reeling from the loss of…