Blog no.3

Blog three--- Realizations and Changes
What realizations have occured for each charachter and what were the immediate benefactors
how will these realizations change them

where do pip n'estella go from here?

In the story thus far, we have noticed progress and development of different sorts from Pip, Joe, Estella, and the others, to see if they meet up to their great expectations.

Let's start off with Pip's relationship with Estella. When a child, pip saw Estella as pretty and cruel. His expectations as a child were completely undeveloped when it comes to Estella, but once older, he expected much more in their relations. He saw himself as her knight in shining armor when first going to miss havisham's once grown up, and still recieved the same treatment. It is my belief that pip and estella will however, continue to grow closer.

Blog no.2

2. The comparison of name to face of: Estella

Where it's from:
The name Estella comes from the Latin "Stella" meaning star, the a on the end was added to Estelle to make it a more feminine name in the Dickens novel. In the middle ages in Europe, this name was an unpopular one, many give credit to Great Expectations for "bringing it back" and reviving the name's popularity.

Why her?:
In the Novel, Estella was given the name to further emphasize her features. Dickens, being the master of exaggeration he was, gave her this name for a reason. Estella in the book, is Miss Havisham's star, her own little pretty thing to look at. Stars also, tend to be quite literally, a light in the dark. In Pip's personal dark, blacksmith world, Estella is that ray of light that shines through Pip's ordinary unexciting life.

Description from the text:
"'I think she is very proud,' I replied, in a whisper. 'Anything else?' 'I think she is very pretty' 'Anything else?' 'I think she is very insulting.'"
Here in the text is Pip's description of Estella to Miss Havisham, you can see how he places her on a pedestal, yet is still frustrated by her.

Mrs.Joe Analyzation

"By this time my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him: while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on." p.11

ANALYSIS:
From pip's description of Mrs.Joe, we can tell a few key elements of her charachter. First of all, he says that her beating rampage begins when she's desparate. Remember when she beat up pip when he came home from the marshes in the beginning of the book? She beat him when she was WORRIED about him. Although she comes off as abrasive and cruel, she really just resorts to violence to protect herself from feeling vulnerable. When pip came home on Christmas, she beat him because she was worried he was out getting into trouble, when she beat her husband, it was because he had more power at that moment than she. Mrs.Joe is just a woman who is worried about losing control. In this scene in paticular, Mrs.Joe feels threatened because Pip and Joe are both referring to pip stealing food, which Mrs.Joe knows nothing about, which, making her the uninformed one, makes her  feel vulnerable.

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