How do pip and estella interact




















Drawn to the world of wealth and leisure as a subject. Although she constantly insults and makes fun of Pip, he falls in love with her. This love for her makes Pip vulnerable to any and every little insult that comes out of her mouth and Pip puts to heart everything she says. So, when she says, "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! And what course hands he has! And what thick boots!

It is at this point that Pip begins to feel ashamed of his uneducated family, and longs to become a gentleman. Even more dangerous is her destructive influence on Pip which makes him strive to become a gentleman no matter the cost. This is what causes growth in a person. Clearly, her haughtiness and contempt for Pip have greatly injured him. For, as he walks homward, he bemoans that he should have such coarse hands and be more ignorant that he had considered himself.

Pip feels that he is in "a low-lived, bad way. Remember me. Forgot your password? New User? First Name. Last Name. Rather than being raised by Magwitch, a man of great inner nobility, she is raised by Miss Havisham, who destroys her ability to express emotion and interact normally with the world.

And rather than marrying the kindhearted commoner Pip, Estella marries the cruel nobleman Drummle, who treats her harshly and makes her life miserable for many years.

Despite her cold behavior and the damaging influences in her life, Dickens nevertheless ensures that Estella is still a sympathetic character. In the final scene of the novel, she has become her own woman for the first time in the book. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.



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