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Great Expectations - Estella - Essay

Great Expectations - Estella


Great Expectations. The Character of Estella One of our first thoughts, like readers, when we finish the novel is to establish two lists; one of good characters and other of bad characters. Since this paper is devoted to the character of Estella the question would be: is she a good character or a bad character? But, before beginning the analysis of Estella in the novel which will try to give an answer to this question, we are going to deal with the symbology of the name of Estella. As we already know, the name of the characters in Dickens is very important. In the case of Estella indicates her personality, her relation with other characters and even the way in which she moves along the ...

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as an impossible dream for Pip. In the same way Pip has expectations in a material level, Estella would be Pip's love expectation. In a Christian sense, the star is a quality applied to the Virgin Mary. Stars are used for orientation, to guide us when we are lost at night. We could say the Virgin Mary lights her sons in the night of sin. In the novel, Estella appears as a light, it is Pip's orientation and he always has her in his mind. If we look at the sky we can see different kinds of stars. One of them is a star which moves and shines in an intermittent way. That's Estella's movement in the novel. Joe, who is always in the countryside, and Mr Jaggers, who is always in London, are characters who appear in series of chapters. In constrast to this, Estella appears in that intermittent way. And also the way in which Estella's story is presented by the different accounts of several characters. Perhaps the symbology provided has not clarified much the question: she's cold but she's ...

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to be at the same level that Estella. At the beginning of the novel we, like readers, like Pip because he is poor, a non-cultivated boy and he is an orphan. Moreover, he, as a narrator, tries to get the readers' affection using irony and humour from the beginning. We are emphasizing this fact because in Pip's second visit (in chapter 11) we see how Estella asks Pip his opinion about her, he answers she is pretty, she hits him and asks the same question and Pip says nothing. From this moment we don't like her. After a new card game we have the scene of the fight between Pip and the other boy. Pip wins and Estella allows him to kiss her as a kind of prize. This is important because, if the ...

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