Estella Havisham

some of what Dickens is trying to express in this writing. After the circle, I was introduced to other opinions, and learn other things. One question in the seminar asks if Pip’s life would’ve been better if he had never met Havisham. I had previously thought that Havisham improved Pip’s life, saying that she made his life fuller and worth living. I was surprised to see that almost half the class thought the exact opposite. Their claim was…

convict whom once he helped during his childhood, he was in a great shock and surprise for he had always been thanking Mrs. Havisham was his benefactor. He when meet his convict after such a long time still the fear was there on his face and in his mind but then he helped the convict to escape from police and at the end when the convict’s relation to Estella is reveled, Pip and Estella learned this lesson the hard way, that the price of finding one’s own worth is the giving up of falls…

heart to pieces—and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper—love her, love her, love her!" (Dickens 85). Miss.Havisham snaps on Pip for doubting his love for Estella, she wants her daughter to follow behind her even if that means for her to crush Pip’s heart, she would rather him get hurt than her daughter even though Estella didn’t feel that way about him. Miss.Havisham tends to have a meaningless repetition of her words. When a person experiences a compulsive behavior they may also…

away. At this point he is young and mostly only cares about impressing the beautiful Estella. He wants to impress her by his education, wealth, and becoming a gentleman. This shows that Pip is not thinking about who he was meant to be, yet who he wants to be just to impress a girl with a higher class. The theme for this stage is you are who you are. Pips whole life is flipped upside down just to be loved by estella.…

Pip, in which he could get rid of his working class “coarse hands” and “thick boots”. Here, Pip learned of his social class by Miss Havisham's daughter Estella. Pip no longer wanted to work with Joe, and instead aspired to become a gentleman and fall in love with Estella. As Pip learns of his trip to London, Pip believes Miss Havisham will make Estella marry him, allowing him to “restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a-going and the cold hearths…

It is not a coincidence when Pip first arrives he sees a little green bird in a cage. Cuarón makes a detail shot here too. This is clearly a symbol of Estella’s way of life. It is a beautiful enormous cage, but it is still a cage, the bird, as Estella are not free. But actually the color green is overused and omnipresent that has no emotional or narrative significance within the film. The color palette does lend a dream atmosphere quality to the…

female characters of Miss Havisham and Mrs. Joe embodied rebellious female figures that deny women’s prescribed behavior at home in the society of Victorian era. The two female characters depict vivid and determining roles that refuse motherhood, marriage and self-sacrifice in different ways, but the outcome of their denial is quiet equal: both of them are punished for the refusal of their expected maternal roles in drastic, violent ways. In the article “The rape of Miss Havisham” by Curt…

mind, Pip not only subconsciously reverts his views of the people from his past, he too realizes his inferiority to Miss Havisham by means of her preconceived wealth. For in this epic, Miss Havisham would shove Pip down an enchanted rabbit hole of derision that would only draw despondency from her spell like demeanor when explaining to the ever so changing Pip to “love [Estella], love her, love her” (Dickens 750). It is with these actions that Pip would begin to mold to the cast set forth by a…

He believes Estella will think less of him because of Joe. This shows coming of age because Pip wants to break his ties with his old life. He wants to become independent, a gentleman, and not be held back by his family. The next contributing factor to coming of age is relationships. When people grow up and come of age, they form new relationships. During one of the first conversations Pip has with Estella, she calls his hands coarse. Pip states after his first visit to Ms. Havisham, “ I had…

Essayist Henry David Thoreau once said, “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” In other words, it is better to do the right thing with specific purpose then to always do what may seem right for no valid reason. This quote discusses the goal of being a moral person, being good for the good of something. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, one can question the morals of many characters, especially…