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The three influential female characters in Pip's world teach him many things in life. The power of female strength and lack of, help and hinder Pip's goal of happiness. Miss Havisham's sorrow and genuine guilt show Pip what a life of despair and isolation can do to one's spirit and he learns to forgive her for all the suffering she has caused. In the new Estella, the reader sees how complete domination over another often backfires and causes self-loathing. Biddy teaches Pip the error of his ways and she shows him that being common is not so bad. The contrasts of society show the reader that although one can choose to pick his place in society, it is often society who will pick him. Estella shows the reader that although one's heart may be cold, the realization and acknowledgment of those that love one softens the rawest of emotions. The struggle of Miss Havisham and Estella to maintain control over society, symbolizes a struggle to maintain control over their own lives. The unhappiness caused by this proves to be the best teacher. Dickens work, Great Expectations, directly shows the reader the harsh repercussions of a person's desire to control another and the discontent often brought to that person's life.

Progressively through Great Expectations, Estella becomes a symbol of female strength and male suffering. Estella causes Pip to be ashamed of his lifestyle and consequently sets his expectations for him. Estella, who has been brought up in a rich household, makes Pip painfully aware of his low social status and barbaric manners. "...what coarse hands he has. And what thick boots...stupid, clumsy laboring boy."(61) In Brenda Ayres, "Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels," she proclaims that Estella, instead of internalizing her suffering as was expected of someone in her class, she inflicts hurt and pain on others (90). As Estella grows up, she continues to calculate and administer suffering on those who love her, especially Pip. Pip, who is completely dominated and intrigued by Estella, falls for her every ploy and continues to allow her to manipulate him. "when you say you love me...you address nothing in my breast...I don't care for what you say at all."(362) Aryes says that because of Estella's inability to love, she marries simply to be "in check" or in submission to someone more powerful than herself (90). She has in fact, been brought up by Miss Havisham to be with everyone except Pip. However frustrating the reader feels when Estella refuses to love Pip in return, the ability to care about someone and to love someone throughout life, is something Miss Havisham has denied Estella of. Estella has everything one could materially acquire but without the capacity to love, Estella will never be happy. After marrying Drummle, Estella loses her power and her internal strength. Lucy Frost adds that love is like sunshine from which Estella had been kept from her entire life, and learning only untruths about in until its too late will send her walking naturally towards her "healing influences" or sunshine (253). In Pip and Estella's final parting, Estella's beauty ha

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