Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Quote Analysis of Estella
- 'very pretty and seemed very proud'
- Pip's first impression of her
- Her only traits. No personality since she
has been molded to be cold and a heartbreaker
- 'her light came along the dark passage like a star'
- Biblical story, star guides the wise men
and sheppards. Pip's life is guided by
Estella due to his love for her
- Stella means star
- Candles burn. Suggests that Estella will
hurt Pip, who will follow her
- Stars are distant, cold, dead and out of
reach. Estella has no heart, she is cold
and rebukes Pip's advances
- 'We have no choice, you and I, but to obey our
instructions. We are not free to follow our own
devices, you and I.'
- Estella + Pip cannot control their own lives,
both are governed by benefactors (Miss
Havisham + Magwitch)
- 'taking me about, and introducing me, and showing
people to me, and showing me to people.'
- She is treated like an object, she
was brought up like one too
- 'her calm face was like a statue's.'
- Statues don't have feelings
- Statues are cold stone
- Statues are rigid + hard
- 'conditions of the men whom she had fascinated'
- She is an exhibit, an object