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    persuading female character, Estella is a remarkably unexpected creation, one who hazily undermines the thought of sentimental love and fills in as a severe feedback against the class framework in which she is soiled. Raised from the age of three by Miss Havisham to torment men and "break their hearts," Estella wins Pip's most profound love by honing intentional brutality. Not at all like the warm, winsome, kind courageous woman of a customary romantic tale, Estella is icy, pessimistic, and manipulative

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    XYZ Thesis Great Expectations The passing of time is an obvious theme in Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations. Mrs. Havisham is trapped in the past- constantly lamenting over her tragic wedding. And Pip is always looking to his future wondering when he might see Estella next and trying to escape his past ruggedness as he becomes a “gentleman.” There is the rotting cake and dress symbolizing Mrs. Havisham’s refusal to forget the past and there is the misty marshes symbolizing Pip’s dark past and his

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    she expresses the hatred of young love when Estella starts insulting Pip as they play, and Miss Havisham lets Estella go on but as for Pip not to talk back but tell what he thinks about her. When he says Estella is pretty she almost expresses a mocking expression as though love can never happen to them or anyone in her house. “Saving for the one weird smile at first, I should have felt almost sure that Miss Havisham’s face could not smile.”

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    Pip experiences mental violence when he meets Estella and Miss Havisham for the first time. They were both very mean to him. Miss Havisham was mean to him (and other men), because her heart was broken once. Her fiancé left her on her wedding day, and she was so heartbroken that she was determined to never move beyond that. Her broken heart made her grow cruel , and bend on revenge on all men. Her revenge came in the form of her adoptive daughter Estella. She trained Estella to be a heartbreaker

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    Estella may be beautiful, but she's as chilly as Frozone, freezing the hearts of everyone around her—including her adopted mom, Miss Havisham. She's "proud and refined" as an adult, and "beautiful and self-possessed" as a child", and for some reason Pip falls desperately in love with her, even though she's really, really rude. But we can't hate Estella, either. Can you imagine living in Satis House with a mother who wears her wedding dress everyday and who only cares that you grow up to break boys'

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    transported to Australia. Pip is then introduced into the wealthy yet decaying home of Miss Havisham where he meets Estella, a little girl who takes pleasure in tormenting Pip about his rough hands and future as a blacksmith. As Pip continues to visit Miss Havisham's house, he becomes more and more dissatisfied with his guardian, Joe, a hard working blacksmith, and his childhood friend Biddy. Several

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    as to him, my inner self was not so easily composed.’ (page38) When Pip is invited to play at the materialistic Satis House, all these good values he has been brought up on are entirely thrown out of the window. Satis House, home of the jilted Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella (Latin for stars), is designed to have a great affect on Pip and in turn, the reader. Its desolateness makes Pip feel

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    Miss Havisham had been heartbroken by Compeyson earlier in her life and she never completely recovered from that heartbreak. Out of revenge she taught Estella also to be cruel to men. Miss Havisham tells Estella: “Break their hearts, my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy” (Dickens 94)! Later in the story, Estella and Miss Havisham get into a fight and Estella says that Miss Havisham had “taught her to be proud and hard” (Dickens 306). If Miss Havisham had not

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    In the present age, the more successful children usually come from well-structured families that are able to provide their children with a lots of care and a happy and loving childhood. Children growing up in this environment will describe their youth as a time of wonder and laughter; they will enjoy the experiences as a child. However, in the Victorian age, this is a completely different story as most children had to go through many hardships and sufferings, in order to satisfy the needs of their

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    Great Expectations and The Go Between Both Great Expectations and The Go Between concern young men from lowly backgrounds who find themselves thrust into the world of the leisured classes and are changed forever. What similarities and differences do you see between the ways in which the two authors handle and develop this shared situation? The reason why we have chosen

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