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    trip. He suggests that Pip tell everyone he is Pip’s uncle. Pip visits Jaggers to seek advice. Jaggers is careful to prevent Pip from saying that "Magwitch" is in England so they cannot be accused of breaking the law. He also confirms that Miss Havisham is not Pip’s benefactor. All business‚ the lawyer tells Pip he will forward all accounts and balances due‚ so that Pip may communicate this information to this "Provis" person‚ or by mail to Magwitch in New South Wales. Pip secures an apartment

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    uses Miss Havisham and Magwitch as creators to show that society is not the best judge of character and that creators can have a large impact in ones life. Miss Havisham and Magwitch are both creators because they use children like Estella and Pip to do what they could never do themselves. Miss Havisham is a creator because she uses Estella to carry out her own plans. For example‚ Miss Havisham trains Estella to be cold and heartless and to seek revenge on the male race. Since Miss Havisham was dumped

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    send to the house of Miss Havisham. She is wealthy spinster and has an adopted daughter named Estella. She takes Pip for Estella’s companion. The young boy falls in love with Estella although she is cruel to him. There are series of events which lead to the moment when Pip understands that he has got a secret benefactor. Pip must leave for London immediately where he is supposed to become a gentleman. Pip believes that Miss Havisham is his benefactor and visit her and Estella‚ who has returned from

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    after she takes vengeance on others is Miss Havisham. After being left at the altar by a man named Compeyson‚ she vows to break all men’s hearts. To aid her in this devious task‚ she adopts a girl named Estella. Miss Havisham raises Estella to break men’s hearts and to be very cold hearted. Estella would criticize others by their looks and did not care about what others thought about her. When Pip‚ a blacksmith boy‚ is called to her house to play‚ Estella is very rude and says she does not want to

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    Dickens Directed Study August 21‚ 2001 Miss Havisham A Victim or a Villain? Was Miss Havisham a victim or a villain? This extremely eccentric character is absolutely essential to the plot of Great Expectations‚ for with malice intended‚ she greatly alters the paths of Pip’s and Estella’s lives‚ and with obsessive behavior destroys her own life. Miss Havisham was heir to a fortune that had been gained by successful industry rather than noble birth. Miss Havisham’s suitor‚ Compeyson‚ was‚ by social

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    Moral Struggles of Great Expectations Pip is the main character of the novel desires to fulfil his expectations and the world he lives in does not gladly provide an easy way to his dream. Joe is his brother-in-law and his angry sister’s husband who treats Pip much better than her‚ just because he happens to have a bog heart. In the beginning of the novel‚ prior to Pip being exposed to the world he feels that he can satisfy his expectations‚ Joe and Pip are equals – the humbleness and loyalty that

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    actions. An example of this is after Pip beats the pale young gentlemen. Pip starts off the novel with feelings of guilt but when Pip encounters Estella and Miss Havisham he begins to feel shame as well. Pip feels ashamed about how he is so common. He regrets that Joe is a mere blacksmith and has no education. Pip’s shame is brought on by Estella. Estella points out all of Pip’s common mannerisms and treats Pip as an inferior‚ even though they are about the same age. She taunts Pip for calling knaves

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    Expectations (Prompt 2) Miss Havisham is a wealthy‚ but odd old lady who lives secluded with her daughter Estella Havisham. Miss Havisham was left at the altar by her fiance and lives her life dwelling in the past‚ hung up on losing the love of her life. She wears her wedding dress (that is now yellowing from age) and has every clock in her estate stopped at the exact minute that she found out that the man she loved‚ left her. The reader will quickly notice that Miss Havisham is a bit of a “fruit cake”

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    Significantly Pip’s life as a gentleman is no more satisfying--and certainly no more moral--than his previous life as a blacksmith’s apprentice. Pip’s desires for educational improvement have deep connections to his social ambition and longing to marry Estella: a full education is a requirement of being a gentleman so he thinks. As long as he is an ignorant country boy‚ he has no hope of social advancement. Pip understands this fact as a child‚ when he learns to read at Mr. Wopsle’s aunt’s school

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    Estella‚ in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations‚ is presented with flat attributes and as a very static character. Estella shows her flat attributes when she tells Pip how she feels about love: “ ‘ You must know‚’ said Estella‚ conceding to me as a brilliant and beautiful young women might‚ ‘ that I have no love in my heart- if that has anything to do with my memory….. Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in‚ I have no doubt‚’ said Estella; ‘and of course‚ if it ceased to beat‚ I should

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