Evaluation of Estella from Great Expectations.
Evaluation of Estella
"The lady whom I had never seen before, lifted up her eyes and looked
archly at me, and then I saw that the eyes were Estella's eyes." From
this passage, I believe it is safe to infer that Pip notices a great
change in Estella's appearance and the way she carries herself, once
she comes back from finishing school, but is there really that much of
a change in the rest of her? Although she may change her methods,
she's still unemotional, she still takes orders from Miss Havisham,
and she still leads Pip on.
Speaking of leading Pip on, Estella leads Pip on. When Pip is at Miss
Havisham's for the second time, Estella acts as if she likes Pip and
does something very unlike herself.
"There was a bright flush upon her face... she stepped back into the
passage and beckoned me.
'Come here! You may kiss me if you like! I kissed her cheek as she
turned it to me. I think I would have gone through a great deal to
kiss her cheek. But, I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse
common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that was worth
nothing." (Page 93, paragraphs 2-4) As you can see Estella is
definitely leading Pip on.
Estella also leads Pip on in the second half of the book. She goes
with Pip to balls and other parties. She also goes down to Miss
Havisham's with him, but these things have no meaning.]
As I just mentioned Pip and Estella go down to Miss Havisham's
together. This is because; although she is grown-up Estella is still
controlled by Miss H. What I'm saying is that Miss H makes them go
(well not so much Pip; he just comes along for the ride). She also
controls Estella in other ways. She makes her write notes ho...
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...the book, but I've got more
proof from the second half. At this part Pip tries to compliment
Estella and she laughs right in his face.
"'I live quite pleasantly there; at least-'It appeared to me that I
was losing a chance.
'At least?' repeated Estella.
'As pleasantly as I could anywhere away from you.'
'You silly boy,' said Estella, quite composedly, 'how can you talk
such nonsense?'" (Page 226, paragraphs 8-11) Hey, I don't know about
anyone else, but I think that was pretty mean (although it wasn't the
same kind of meanness that was in the first part).
That's exactly what my paper's on. I think I've just proved that
Estella is the same person throughout the whole book, but the kind of
person she is changes (whether she's leading Pip on, being controlled
by Miss Havisham, or being her mean ol' self). If I have then my
mission was successful.
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