Blog #3

Estella finally sees Miss Havisham for who she really is; a heartbroken old puppeteer. And Estella is her puppet. She has been shielded all these years by Miss Havisham's teachings, but not in a good way. She has been shielded from true love and living her own fulfilling life. Because Miss Havisham's life was ruined, another life was ruined too. And this life, belonging to Estella, as I see it cannot be repaired. I don't think she will ever end up with her true love, or will ever even have one. She is forever just a tool to break men's hearts. And to go against that would be to go against all that she grew up with. This is all realized when Estella finally speaks out against her master and makes her feel terrible for what she has done.
Pip finally accepts the fact that he will never be with Estella. He finally realizes that she is permanently damaged from the teachings, and finally can think of her without being tempted by her perfection. He now sees her for what she really is.

Blog #2

In part 1, Miss Havisam's house serves as a development of expectations for Pip. Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook's comments suggest that Miss Havisham intends to raise him into wealth and high social class. Pip expects to be made into a gentleman and to live like a king someday by means of Miss Havisham. Surely a woman this formal and high in class would be more than set on transforming a poor dirty little boy a gentleman, he thinks. This is the first of Pip's "Great Expectations". Another expectation of his arises when he meets Estella. He believes he has been asked to play because someday he will become married to this proud young girl. When he realizes that the extent of Miss Havisham's generosity is when she helps him with his "apprenticeship papers", he realizes that he will probably never be married to Estella, and he is to be of poor class and to be a blacksmith the rest of his life.
Estella's name is a good revelation of how she is in real life. First of all, just the sound of the name is somewhat pretty and proud, just as she is. When looking at the etymology of the name, it says her name means "star" as if she is a fallen angel and she is better than everyone else on earth. Her descriptions perfectly match this. Pretty, proud, cruel, insulting, and conceited go hand in hand with the descripttion.

Blog #1

This quote is another representation of Dickens portraying the young immature child in Pip. Back then, he thought everyone could go to jail. It also shows how Mrs. Joe scares Pip and manipulates him into being scared of going to the Hulks. He sees himself as a convict, and Mrs. Joe's threats make him believe it. It's ironic how the writing style is so sophisticated, but Dickens makes him seem very childish. Dickens does a good job of balancing the two to make it comical.