Great Expectations

This story is a case of " what goes around, comes around. " Miss Havisham spent a lot of time allowing Estella to treat Pip badly despite the fact that she knew he liked her. Estella ends up marrying someone else. In time Miss Havisham apologizes to Pip. After she asks him to forgive her dress catches on fire and she is badly injured.

As mentioned before, Pip possess and inability to fully express his feeling about those around him. When he first encounters Estella, he knows that is a physical attraction but Estella’s cold and indifferent actions toward Pip leave him longing for someone he cannot create a true connection with. Furthermore, Estella has the one of the greatest influence on Pip’s identity in the novel once he obtains his expectations and attempts to alter his personality to mimic that of a genteel individual. Pip describes the anguish he feels about his background as “a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home” insinuating that the only way to win Estella over is to disregard his humble beginnings in Kent. Which leads to his desires to become a gentleman in London in hopes that he will be better suited for Estella.

With a beautiful angelic face and a cold-heart Estella serves an important role as Pip’s love interest in the story. Although she is everything that Pip should never want in a friend, that doesn’t stop him from loving her. In the novel, Estella is an important character in both the literal and figurative

In the original ending of Great Expectations, there is no Chapter 59, and Dickens reunites Pip and Estella in four short paragraphs. Although this ending is generally referred to as the unhappy ending since Pip and Estella definitely part ways again, it does give the reader hope that Estella finally understands how she treated Pip. This is important because it ties Estella and Pip together by the fact that they are both able to feel remorse for the way they treated other people. In Estella's case, she mistreated Pip, but after suffering at the hands of Drummle, she is finally able to empathize with Pip. She understands what it is like to be under the control of another human being. Throughout the novel, it is Estella who has power over Pip and every other man she meets. However, during her marriage, Estella is subjected to "outrageous treatment" (440), physical abuse, from Drummle.

Through the years, a number of individuals have argued that this is the best way for the novel to conclude. These people tend to believe that this ending is more true to the overall tone of the novel than the revised finale. Great Expectations never exists as a typically happy story. Its plot is marked by constant disappointment and suffering, which would therefore make the application of a happy, romantic ending seem rather unnatural. By the end of the story, Pip has learned a great deal about himself and reached a new level of maturity. He has come to recognize the mistakes that he had made as a young man and is able to appreciate the importance of family. No longer is he consumed by a selfish desire for wealth and social status. Pip’s primary motivation for attaining such a gentlemanly status had been his desire to marry Estella. By the end of the novel, however, Pip’s character has been redeemed. He has progressed beyond the point in his life that was represented by his love for Estella. This deliverance would then seem to make it impossible for Pip to continue loving Estella. She was a part of his youth; Pip, however, has become a man.

Pip’s ignorance at this point is shown because he later realizes how much more the character of a person matters than their social class; just because someone is rich does not make them better than you (Bloom). When he gets the news that he has been given a large amount of money from a secret benefactor, he is positive that it was Miss Havisham rewarding him for becoming a gentleman and finally earning the lovely Estella. From his thoughts at this point we can see he is still not fully educated or a complete “gentleman” because he is only thinking of himself. Eventually, he grows up and becomes the gentleman he always wanted be, without Estella, and learns the real benefactor is Magwitch. Through all of the life lessons Pip goes through, he finds he will always love Estella but understands she does not deserve him, and therefore is not hurt when he discovers she is married to an upperclass man. The quotes, “...once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be...” and “I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death,” indicates how much he loves Estella but he knows she is no good for him.

From reading this quote, you can see just how much Pip loves Estella and how much Pip says he loves Estella. Pip says his description of love for Estella is in images of nature and the many other things that are surrounding him.Therefore in a way, Estella isn’t a human to him, she’s just areas that are around him. I think that maybe this is the reason why Dickens didn’t allow Pip and Estella to be together,because Pip’s love is all about

Pip then goes on to address the reader directly and explains that “[t]hat was a memorable day to [him], for it made great changes in [him],” (Dickens 70). After meeting with Estella several times and becoming extremely fond of her, despite her bipolar attitudes towards him, Ms. Havisham suddenly decides to recompense Pip for his time and then tells him that he no longer has to come back to the Satis House. Everyday after this, Pip continuously thinks of Estella and of how he must become a gentleman in order to be at the same level as Estella and eventually marry her. Another character Biddy (whose relationship to Pip is somewhat complicated) begins acting as Pip’s teacher and Pip says “[w]hatever [he] acquired, [he] tried to impart to Joe,” because “[he] wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common.” Pip’s plans to become a well-mannered gentleman to be worthy of high-society and to be worthy of Estella’s affection are two goals or “great expectations” that Pip sets for himself that ultimately carry the plot of the novel along.

I think just as much as she wanted Pip to fall in love with Estella, she wanted Estella to fall in love with Pip. Dickens talks about Estella's mood swings when it came to her treatment of Pip (chapter 12) and how Miss Havisham seemed to enjoy them; it leads me to believe that Estella was having strong feelings for Pip but being trained that they were to be fought, crushed, and ignored, which must have lead to some pain, inner conflict and confusion for the young girl. Miss Havisham, I think, wanted Estella to learn this feeling of passion young, and wanted her to learn how to reject them young. It would also explain why she always loved Pip, even though she denied it. It was the only love she really ever experienced, but was never allowed to

She adopted her when she was young just so she could love her. But, in the end she turned her into a such a monster that it even back fired on her. She's also regretful of putting her past on her and made her try to take revenge for her. Now, Estella inside of her has no heart and she believes what Miss Havisham wanted her to believe about love. Miss Havisham now knows the truth about Pip's love for Estella and it kills her to see that she caused a lot of pain for Pip by changing Estella. The love Miss Havisham wished upon having from a guy was in Pip for Estella and she sees she messed it up all for

In the novel “Great Expectations”, the author, Charles Dickens, shows the views of the people of different social classes. The main character, known as Pip, shows these many views throughout his own life. Pip’s misguided interpretation of what it is to be a gentleman leads him to push people away that matter most to him, follow deceptive dreams, and reject the love that is continually shown to him.

In the book Great Expectations, the story is about how a young orphan boy named Pip starts out homeless and poor and shows how his life gradually got better and he became rich in the end with the help of anonymous benefactors. Pip lived his whole life believing that Miss Havisham was his benefactor, when she really wasn’t. Miss Havisham played a huge part in this story, she practically raised Pip since he was a little boy and she stayed in the story until the end. She helped him in many ways but also breaks his heart by using her adopted daughter Estella. Estella is Pips crush whom he falls in love with and spends his whole life trying to get with but never does because she was raised not to love because of Miss Havisham’s bad experience with

In the novel Great Expectations by author Charles Dickens, the main character Pip encounters a girl named Estella that would change the rest of his life in a very negative way. There are some points to the side of this argument of Estella being a good impact on Pip but it does not compare to the immensely harmful actions that she had inflicted on him. The facts that Estella always mislead him, stalled his life, and set too high expectations for Pip’s love life resulting in him never finding a women to settle down with in the story shows how negative her impact on Pip has been. Some people may argue that she gave Pip goals to reach and made him realize a world outside of the Forge but Pip leaving the Forge is what Pip regrets immensely in

I think all throughout great expectations, you learn that revenge is not sweet, and you should forgive and forget. Not only through the lessons that Miss Havisham has learned through the years, but through the things that Miss Havisham did to Estella and Pip. Although the two ended up good people, they had to learn a lot of things the hard way. Pip was always a kind as a child, but when he went to Miss Havisham’s the first day, something broke in him. He suddenly became sullen, almost heartless, like Estella was to him. The two were clouded by Miss Havisham’s judgment, and ultimately, it hurt Miss Havisham in the end.

Most readers are appalled at the cold-hearted and cruel ways of Estella, but any criticism directed at her is largely undeserved. She was simply raised in a controlled environment where she was, in essence, brainwashed by Miss Havisham. Nonetheless, her demeanor might lead one to suspect that she was a girl with a heart of ice. Estella is scornful from the moment she is introduced, when she remarks on Pip's coarse hands and thick boots. However, her beauty soon captivates Pip and she is instilled as the focal point of his thoughts for much of the remainder of the novel. The fact that Pip becomes infatuated with her is also not Estella's fault. By no means is there any evidence that she loved him. She does not flirt with