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She is such a heartless spoiled brat throughout the whole book!! I can't stand her demanding presence for very much longer.
I think the full novel does a much better job of revealing Estella. You are suppose to dislike her Dickens painted her in her full nastiness.
Neither do I. But I recognize that at some part of my life I acted like her as well as I had my reasons to do it.
I have an inkling that Dickens wanted to write an Ice Queen character who was able to resist the charms of the hero, and left the ending (the first version more than the second, I understand) deliberately ambiguous. I suppose you have to look at Dickens' relationships with women to work out why he invested Estella with such disdain.
Chris wrote: "I have an inkling that Dickens wanted to write an Ice Queen character who was able to resist the charms of the hero, and left the ending (the first version more than the second, I understand) delib..."
That's what we can call unrequited love. The heroes (and heroines also) appear as tender, loyal and sometimes naive people who can do whatever in order to show their love to those who are the supposed Ice Queens (or Kings).
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She is such a heartless spoiled brat throughout the whole book!! I can't stand her demanding presence for very much longer.
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I think the full novel does a much better job of revealing Estella. You are suppose to dislike her Dickens painted her in her full nastiness.
Neither do I. But I recognize that at some part of my life I acted like her as well as I had my reasons to do it.
I have an inkling that Dickens wanted to write an Ice Queen character who was able to resist the charms of the hero, and left the ending (the first version more than the second, I understand) deliberately ambiguous. I suppose you have to look at Dickens' relationships with women to work out why he invested Estella with such disdain.
Chris wrote: "I have an inkling that Dickens wanted to write an Ice Queen character who was able to resist the charms of the hero, and left the ending (the first version more than the second, I understand) delib..."That's what we can call unrequited love. The heroes (and heroines also) appear as tender, loyal and sometimes naive people who can do whatever in order to show their love to those who are the supposed Ice Queens (or Kings).
