Estella Havisham

England has a history of creating policies and cultures that shame and look down on those individuals who are apart of the lower classes. Class wasn 't always based off of wealth. Early in England’s history an individual’s social status was based on their lineage, as described by Stephen Liddell “though not common, it was entirely possible for an aristocratic family to be almost bankrupt whilst still retaining their upper class rating (1). This culture likely lead to the idea of “respecting…

Miss Havisham can be symbolized as one of the main antagonists of the novel. She had never lived life to its fullest, after she was left at the altar. After her wedding incident, she stopped bathing; stopped all the clocks in her home; never left the house, as shown by quote number one; and never took off her bridal dress. The image of Miss Havisham’s bridal cake shows that she held on to everything from the past, no matter how disgusting it made her life; consequently, making herself miserable.…

When he visits there, Miss Havisham is exceedingly cold and disrespectful to him, and she even encourages Estella to be snotty towards him. Estella criticizes Pips every move and makes fun of him. This goes to show that even though Estella is being well educated, her mannerism is contradicting herself because she is being raised by Miss Havisham’s sadistic ways. Her social class changes…

poor family. He inherits a large fortune from an unknown benefactor and leaves behind his whole life as he had known previously, and starts anew. Pip abandons his family and friends and only comes back to visit them when it benefits him, or whenever Estella wishes for his assistance. Things go great for Pip until near the end of the story, when his money is lost and he now must depend on his friends and family. Through Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations and research on the Victorian era, one…

trait when not taken too far. He then shows what happens to those that obsess about their ambitions using the characters Pip and Miss Havisham. In the novel, Pip, the protagonist is an example of how ambition can be taken too far and how it can lead to their downfall. In the story pips ambition is to become a gentleman and when the heart of a girl named is Estella. He pursues this dream relentlessly and he gets caught up in his ambition before he realizes he has lost…

of decay” loudly represents Miss Havisham. She says that she has worn out just as it has, whether it’s her mental, physical condition, or both. I believe it represents her mental health, as she doesn’t seem to be all there. There is also an underlying feeling that people have tried to ruin her; what the teeth that are sharper than a mice’s are referring to. Maybe it’s because she’s so rich that it’s disgusting. The importance of this statement made by Miss Havisham is great because it gives the…

Expectations, Estella is characterized as to how she acts around others. Looking back on Estella, she was taught by Ms. Havisham to treat men poorly because of the incident regarding to her wedding. Meanwhile, as she realizes Pips feelings towards her grow rapidly, she still treats him as if he was nothing. Up until the very end, she then understands the person she’s become is not the person she desires to be. As Pip fails to exceed his feelings towards her any longer, Estella begins to be…

As the protagonist in the beginning of Great Expectations, Pip is a selfless, lovable boy. Yet, as Pip’s love for Estella grows, so does his snobbery. All of Pip’s life, he tries to be “uncommon” to meet Estella’s standards, but she exclusively sees him as a “common boy”, because of this, he attempts with all of his might to become a proper gentleman for Estella. Of course, there are certain portions of Pip’s lifestyle he feels compelled to detach himself from in order to “win her heart” and…

character relationships, there are glaring similarities between the two. There are many examples of similar characters in the two novels. Pip and Katniss have much in common. In chapter forty- four, page three hundred thirty-four Pip talks to miss Havisham. “ ‘I suppose I did really come here… as a kind of servant, to gratify a want or a whim, and to be paid for it.’ ‘ you did.’ “ At…

Sin: a mistake that all humans make, believed to weigh down the soul until one repents. One thing that global religions have in common is the acknowledgment of sin, whether through set laws or teachings of holy scripture. However, on a more local scale, individuals combat sin in a personal way, as greed especially comes to the selfish and expectations come to the overly prideful. In Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, the main character Pip’s ultimate sin is his expectations that lead him to…