Estella Havisham

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    spinstress Miss Havisham. “...which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Some windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred.”(Dickens 42). As shown here, the Satis House, is not a luxurious manor, like most would expect it to be. The wealthy have no reason to be living in a house with bars on it, a type of prison. Only an unhappy person would live in such a place. This is significant because this shows that though Miss…

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    with artificial lighting. This symbolizes how Miss Havisham is cut off from the rest of the world mentally and how her state of mind is reflected by her external surroundings. In chapter 8, Pip also meets Estella, who is described as a star. She is metaphorically Pip’s guiding star.…

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    our lives with all these mixed emotions and events, pip also endures the same while he loves another whole heartedly, but she doesn 't feel the same in return, the delightful and humorous friends he meets in his journey, and the oddities of Miss Havisham. "Heaven knows we never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding…

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    Pip learns that his choices affect not only himself but others around him through interacting with Estella. By interacting with Estella and hearing the nasty comments she makes about his upbringing, Pip attempts to change himself from an ordinary boy to an uncommon scholar. Pip had at first felt ashamed of himself when Estella had made fun of him for calling the knaves, Jacks while playing a card game, and also when she told him that he has coarse hands and thick boots(p.g.55). Pip mentioned…

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    Great Expectation is a novel that explores growth in its protagonist Pip. An influential character on his development is Wemmick who works as a clerk at Mr Jagger’s office. The significance of this essay is to explore how Wemmick’s personality influenced a positive change in pips character and how Dicken’s uses Wemmick to illustrate the concept of a gentleman. Wemmick prides himself in his split personality between work Wemmick and home Wemmick. Work Wemmick is cold and brutal he does this to…

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    novel that follows the growth of a promising English boy, the protagonist, Pip, declares to Estella, a formerly cold, unattainable girl, that “You have always held your place in my heart” (484). Pip, who finds Estella after over a decade of separation, makes this declaration on a bench by the Satis house in his old hometown. This sincere, affectionate remark confirms Pip’s constant, eternal love for Estella. This constancy, however, contrasts the rest of Pip’s extraordinary life full of death,…

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    first and only love, Estella, was Magwitch’s daughter and that Miss Havisham had raised her to become a heart breaker to help her cope with her own broken heart from being left at the alter. Miss Havisham confessed that Pip was Estellas first practice case, allowing her to toy with his emotions and reject him with no…

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    parents died and he ends up being raised by his sister and her fiancé Joe. Eventually he meets Mrs. Havisham who believes pip has potential. She sends him off to boarding school to become a gentleman. Pip falls in love with Estella an orphan Mrs. Havisham is raising. Estella takes advantage of him causing pip to get involved with a lot of circumstances that caused him to fall ill. Years later pip see Estella again and they forgive each other and resolve to live a better life. The events in the…

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    In the beginning of the novel, Pip’s intentions when he grew up were to work with Joe in the forge. Unfortunately, when Miss Havisham began to meet with him, he started to create false hopes of his future. When Pip was first going to meet her, he had no idea why he was going. Pip said, “Why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham's, and what on earth I was expected to play…

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    The main character is a boy named Pip, who longs to become a blacksmith like his brother in-law Joe. Suddenly, he changes his mind, and wants to become a gentleman. His change of heart is due to a girl named Estella, the adopted daughter of a querulous, old woman named Miss Havisham. An anonymous benefactor pays for Pip to live in London and have a great education. Pip doesn’t think about all the wonderful people who are helping him. Pip believes he is better than some people because…

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