Examine the development and effects of the relationship between Pip

Examine the development and effects of the relationship between Pip

and Estella

Pip and Estella's story is not about living happily ever after.

Dickens never tells us what happens, if anything, between them in the

end. He leaves it only that they remain friends. There is a purpose

for this. Dickens novel is about Pip's quest for Estella's love and

what he is willing to do to gain it. I think that the story is never

about the love itself. We can see this because in the majority of the

story, Estella is only present in Pip's heart and thoughts. The actual

interaction between the characters Dickens keeps at a minimum. To make

this a love story, the characters would have to carry out some sort of

loving affection towards each other, which they don't do, although I

do believe that Pip loves Estella but she thinks it is impossible that

she will ever love, and so does not ever like the idea of Pip's

affection; as a friend she repeatedly warns him off. I think that most

of us regard a woman without feeling, who torments others, with

disapproval, but it is not Estella's faul...