Estella‚ an adopted daughter of Miss Havisham‚ is extremely wealthy‚ prideful‚ ambitious and cold-hearted. Though Estella’s wealth seems to give her everything‚ she is not satisfied‚ and even claims that she “she has "no heart… no softness there‚ no—sympathy—sentiment—... ” (pg.186) Estella is manipulated by Miss Havisham to become the ideal girl for Miss Havisham. She has a very bold and strong character but is trapped within the confinements of Miss Havisham and society. She is regarded as a dark
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Have you ever wonder how wealth can bring a person happiness and how it can change a person or does it make that person a better person who was once poor? Driving to a local grocery store for an example‚ to buy some food for your family to eat and at the register‚ you have a dollar left. So you decide to buy a lottery ticket and later that night watching TV‚ you out of million hit the jackpot which would change your life forever. Or just going to school everyday and doing your homework knowing that
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She is the incarnation of Miss Havisham’s hatred of men and it is through her that Miss Havisham is able to cause severe heartache to the innocent Pip. She has been raised to wreak revenge on the male sex and to break their hearts’ on behalf of Miss Havisham. Dickens uses the character of Estella to evoke a feeling of sympathy for Pip throughout the novel. The seeds for this pity are laid in chapter eight. When Pip is
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indelible consequences. Thus parents must not mold children after their own purposes and expect them to be someone different from whom they truly desire to be. This is one of the major mistakes we see in the novel made by characters such as Miss Havisham and Magwitch‚ who pretend to outline the lives of others. Pip’s life has always been influenced and affected by various people. Some want the best for him and others the worst. His parents died since he was very young and this forced him to live
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(Dickens 9)‚ an escaped convict approaches him and demands that Pip gets him a file and some wittles. Being scared of the man‚ Pip does as he asks. As Pip grows older‚ he forgets about Joe and the convict and becomes closely aquatinted with Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella. He soon becomes infatuated with their lifestyle and Estella’s beauty. As Pip continues his expectations‚ he comes into the possession of money from an anonymous benefactor and changes into an egotistical snob and
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Inequalities in the Victorian Social Class Structure in Great Expectations In Victorian society‚ there was a clear separation of the classes. The poor lived a life to which society looked down upon them with lives lacking opportunity. The rich lived a lavish life on top of the hierarchy with great opportunity. Each of the classes was separated by their financial situations and heritage‚ which lead to their daily life situation. Their daily lives were impacted by these contributions‚ which lead to
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Identical to 3% of our population‚ Estella has no conscience‚ or any true emotional attachment to another human being. Dickens adds fuel to the ’nature versus nurture’ debate on sociopaths‚ as Estella’s sociopathy is apparently taught to her by Miss. Havisham. The identification of sociopaths is difficult‚ and great care must be taken not to make erroneous diagnosis. The positive identification of sociopaths in our society could prove extremely useful to both law enforcement officers and to general members
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Jessica Jemma Coster Candidate Number: 2050 Centre Number: 36325 How does Charles Dickens create mystery and tension in the opening of Great Expectations? Charles Dickens‚ the author of ‘Great Expectations’ uses many different ways and methods of building up tension and mystery in the setting. He uses a variety of techniques to give the graveyard‚ the marshes and Miss Havisham’s house mysterious feelings with a sense of darkness and Gothic horror. Dickens uses a semantic field to bring the
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Great Expectations From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the Charles Dickens novel. For other uses‚ see Great Expectations (disambiguation). Great Expectations Title page of Vol. 1 of first edition‚ July 1861 Author Charles DickensCountry United Kingdom Language English Series Weekly: 1 December 1860 – 3 August 1861 Genre Realistic fiction‚ social criticismPublisher Chapman & HallPublication date 1861 (in three volumes) Media type Print Pages 544 Great Expectations is Charles
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first year of marriage it seemed that Drummle really did love me. He whispered sweet words into my ears at night and told me all the things that I wanted to hear. Now‚ I recall the words that Miss Havisham last spoke to me‚ and I realize she was right all along. Frail and shriveled on her deathbed‚ Miss Havisham whispered‚ “Estella‚ I am sorry. Please forgive. Please forgive. Please forgive.” She kept repeating this phrase until I interrupted her chanting‚ “What could you possibly be sorry about? I am
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