Theme Of Love In Great Expectations

Cruel Love

“Great Expectations’’ is a bildungsroman written by the British author, Charles Dickens. This book describes the development of an orphan named Pip and his love for Estella. Pip is the hero and a round character. Also he is the narrator of ‘’Great Expectations’’. He was raised by his sister Mrs. Joe and her husband Mr. Joe to become a blacksmith. Then Pip’s Guardian, Jaggers finds a woman who is very rich and benefactor, named Miss Havisham. Pip expects a lot of thing from Miss Havisham. He wants her to raise his social class and give him a gentelman’s fortune. After that Pip’s purpose changes and Pip’s “Great Expectations” is to become a wealthy and educated gentleman. However, once Pip’s expectations begin, and he falls in love with Estella, even though she is really a cold, rude, heartbroker. Because she was raised by Miss Havisham, she continues to break mens’ heart and to torment them. Pip’s friend Herbet and Estella warn Pip not to love her because Herbet thinks that Estella is not in Pip’s destiny and Estella grown by Miss Havisham and she doesn’t like Pip. The relationship between Pip and Estella is very complex and ironic She never love and show her feelings toward to Pip also she uninterested in him.

“ Come here! You may kiss me if you like”(Dickens 72), this quote is the major irony, of situation in this book, because it happens after Estella acts insulting and degrading to Pip. Everbody becomes confused, because she just now very mean to Pip but now she says kiss me. Estella’s actions are very complex and ironic. Pip doesn’t expect Estella to say this but as she turned to Pip, he directly kiss her cheek. But Pip says that “I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common...

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...the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you can’t choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good that harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”(Dickens 285). This quote represents the impossible and the cruel love between Estella and Pip, and this is very emotinal. Also the quote tells how much Pip loves Estella. Pip’s love is all about himself and it is not entirely selfless. Pip describes his love in images of nature and the landscape that he has.