He is also fearful because the convict came back to England to see Pip and will be hanged if he's caught. Pip escorts Estella to Satis House and always, she pays. By not allowing Pip to pay, Estella controls the situation and is beholden to no one.
Whoever holds the money, therefore, holds the control. The convict holds the power over Pip because he is the benefactor. His money has provided Pip's easy life and, prepared for no other profession, Pip has become totally dependent on that money.
Pip's blind pursuit of money to win Estella has also cost him Joe. He has traded Joe for the convict — the guilt and shame nearly crush Pip. The reader senses a fair bit of hinting and foreshadowing in these chapters, as when Dickens ends Chapter 19 with a tale of ceilings falling in on Pip.
Something bad is about to happen. Also, before Magwitch actually reveals that he is Pip's benefactor, he drops a number hints to give Pip the chance to guess this fact. The fantasy descriptions of Miss Havisham continue. She has also become the victim of her own madness.
Estella tells her and Pip that she is incapable of loving anyone because that has been her training. Miss Havisham never intended for that weapon of revenge to wound her, as well as the young men that Estella rejects.
Yet, Estella is being as kind as she is capable of through her openness and honesty. Later, Miss Havisham explicitly urges Pip to love Estella:. Though Pip is aware that the love she refers to sounds like hate, despair, revenge, and death, a curse rather than a blessing, he perseveres in his attachment for Estella. His attachment had and continues to have adverse effects on him. Pip, both in his dream of having great expectations to win Estella and in the realization of those expectations, is passive; he waits for others and for events to act upon him and give him direction, meaning, and purpose.
He wishes to become a gentleman because he is unhappy with his status, and his desire to be a gentleman makes him unhappy. His feelings about Joe and home make him feel guilty. Once he is made a gentleman, he becomes a snob and leads a futile, empty life. Never in Estella's presence is he happy, as he well knows, yet he dreams of being happy with her in some future, when Miss Havisham will bestow her upon him. That Miss Havisham, as well as Estella, is guilty of manipulating Pip is obvious; is he also guilty of the same offense?
Miss Havisham's effect on Estella is equally unhappy. Surrounded by Miss Havisham's conniving relatives and impressed by her example and teachings, Estella is an emotionally abused child. Estella too is passive, taking her directions from Miss Havisham; she tells Pip, "We have no choice, you and I, but to obey our instructions" page She becomes an accomplished flirt, heartlessly leading men on. She sees herself as an object; she has to write Miss Havisham "and report how I go on—I and the jewels" page It has been suggested that Estella hates herself.
And worst of all, Estella has been robbed of the ability to love. How serious an offense is it that Miss Havisham blights Estella's ability to love? Dostoevsky said that hell is the loss of the ability to love. Why does Pip become ashamed of Joe? How does Miss Havisham feel about her behavior at the end of her life?
Summary Chapters 38— Summary: Chapter 38 Pip spends a great deal of time with Estella in the house of her London hostess, Mrs. Previous section Chapters 36—37 Next section Chapters 40— Test your knowledge Take the Chapters Quick Quiz. Popular pages: Great Expectations. The society decides that Drummle has to provide evidence that he's dating Estella, which Drummle easily does. He shows the boys a note Estella had written him.
At a party soon after, he watches Drummle flirt with Estella all night. Pip approaches Estella and asks her why she allows someone as spider-ly as Drummle to hang out with her. Estella tells him she does so to have a certain "effect" on her other suitors, but not on Pip. Does Pip really want her to deceive and entrap him? Well, kind of. He knows that this means he doesn't stand a chance with Estella, that she has plans for Drummle, and that he's farther away from her than he's ever been.
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