Thursday, February 26, 2009
Blog #3 Chapters 38-39
Estella and Pip finally get out of bed after hitting the sleep button many times. They wake up groggy and do not want to go to the metaphorically school in their lives. Pip finally realizes that Estella is just leading him on. When Pip says that he loves her, and she does not return the feeling. Estella realizes that she is being used as a puppet by the master puppeteer Ms. Havisham. I think Pip will just move on ever so slowly but will try even harder in the coming chapters to try to get Estella back to love him. Estella, I think, will move out of Satis House and try to live with Jaggers. I think that Ms. Havisham will die of depression because she will have nobody to love, and she has the inevitable memory of her husband-to be leaving her on her wedding day. Estella and Pip will move farther apart than ever because they do not have a person in common to go to.
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Before reading chapter 49, I would have mostly agreed with you about how Estella and Pip would eventually grow apart. But, after the turbulent events that occurred in chapter 49, I have a different opinion. After Estella leaves, Miss Havisham becomes depressed and basically unravels. When Pip returns to visit her, Miss Havisham kneels in front of Pip and cries out “O…What have I done! What have I done!” (399) referring to the manner in which she raised Estella. Pip states “I knew not how to answer, or how to comfort her. That she had done such a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment…and wounded pride found vengeance in…But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more” (399). As Pip is leaving, he sees “a great flaming light spring up”; this flaming light is Miss Havisham. As she leaned over the fireplace, her tattered wedding gown caught fire and left her screaming and flailing for help. Pip is able to save her, but she is badly burned. This tragic event will bring Estella and Pip closer together and will allow them to work out their problems as they care for Miss Havisham.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with either of you. You both have it half right. Pip is always going to want to stay with Estella, however Estella will never want to be with Pip. Miss Havisham has no control over Estella's decisions anymore and thus cannot affect who she ends up with and has no inclination to do so because she is not Pip's benefactor. Also, Estella is currently married at this part of the story and announced this to Pip in Chapter 44 declaring that she had no interest in him. "I don't care for what you say at all. I have tried to warn you of this; now, have I not?"[Dickens 362] Cleary, Estella doesn't care about Pip's feelings and there is no way that they will be a couple at the end of the book unless Dickens decides to have a fairy tale ending.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with the perception of Estella and Pips relationship and predictions. Pip obviously loves Estella and I think that the feeling is mutual with Estella. She rejects marrying Pip because she would not be able to express her love as Pip can. She is very cold on the outside and the inside but she slowly warms as we can see towards the end. I believe that there was some love in her heart for Pip come the time of her marriage with Drummle.
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