Pip thinks that Miss Havisham is the fairy godmother and his benefactor but by the end of the novel he realizes that she is the evil ogre. According to Pip Miss Havisham is an immensely rich and grim lady who is living in a large house and leads a life of seclusion. She looks like a lady from another world. “In an arm chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see”1. Miss Havisham had paid Pip a premium of twenty-five guineas for going there.

It was much upon my mind (particularly when I first saw him looking about for his file) that ought to tell Joe the whole truth… The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney-corner at night staring drearily at my for ever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.30

As the story starts Pip is a frog who lives a happy life along with his sister and Joe, but towards the middle and end of the novel he aims to be a gentleman for Estella, who at the same time turns snobbish to his loved ones. When Pip sees Joe is looking for his lost file, he doesn’t want to tell him that he stole it, because he doesn’t want to lose Joe’s confidence and friendship.

Pip loves Estella and praises her as princess, but she turns out to be a snobbish ice-maiden. Pip believes that Estella is very pretty and so refined, compared to him. “In her furred traveling dress, Estella seemed more delicately beautiful than she had ever seemed yet, even in my eyes.”21 “Pip is hopelessly smitten by Estella’s beauty.”22 When he takes Estella to Richmond, she behaves kindly towards Pip and let him kiss her cheek. “‘If I say yes, may I kiss the cheek again?’ ‘You should have asked before you touched the hand. But, yes, if you like.’”23 Her name describes her beauty and her position as a princess. “Estella, a little girl as beautiful and coldly distant as the star whose name she bears.”24 She is the daughter of the convict Magwitch and her mother was a murderer. “She is in fact the illegitimate daughter of Magwitch by the criminal who now serves as Mr. Jagger’s’ servant.”25 In addition, while Estella gets into an argument with Miss Havisham, Estella accuses her of the way she has been raised by Miss Havisham, and blames everything on her. “I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.”26 “All that you have given me is at your command to have again. Beyond that, I have nothing. And if you ask me to give you what you never gave me, my gratitude and duty cannot do impossibilities.”27 When Pip tells Estella how much he loves her, she refuses his love, and answers him cruelly. She also tells Pip that she doesn’t care for what he said to her. “When you say you love me, I know what you mean as a form of words, but nothing more. You address nothing in my breast, you touch nothing there. I don’t care for what you say at all. I have tried to warn you of this, now, have I not?”28 Thus, as Pip’s love towards Estella grows, she promptly becomes his princess, but as he becomes more dedicated to her she turns her back on him, and we see that towards the end of the novel, he finds her nothing but an ice-maiden. Finally, “The novel ends with Pip and Estella reunited at the gate of the ruined Satis House.”29

In conclusion, Pip realizes that fairy tales doesn’t come true in reality and it was only his

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Miss Havisham, Pip Magwitch, England Pip, Pip Joe, London”38 Pip, Estella Richmond, Estella Pip’s, Gargery Blacksmith, Joe Gargery, Satis House”29, miss havisham, fairy godmother, evil ogre, towards novel, love towards, loved ones, towards loved ones, towards estella, joe’s confidence, distant star, estella revenge, pip miss havisham,