Description of Estella from the "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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    Estella is one of the main characters from the "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.This character is the prove of Miss Havisham's beartbreak, as Estella was raised by her. She was educated to freeze the hearts around her, but Pip falls inlove with her even if she is rude with him. She hardly knows him for five minutes, but she had the courage to tell him that he has "coarse hands" and "thick boots".  For Pip she was the ideal of life among the upper classes, but in reality she is efrom even a lower class than Pip as she is the daughter of Magwitch.
    Estella appeared as a character that demontrate that one's happiness and well-being do not depend on one's social position: Instead of marrying Pip who would do anything to make her happy, she married the cruel nobleman Drummel, who made her life a living hell.

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    Despite her behaviour : "never had any such thing" as tenderness and that she has "no heart…no softness there, no sympathy,sentiment,nonsense" the author ensures that Estella is still a nice character. C. Dickens foresees the inner spirit of her which explains what Pip would love in her. Estella continues to hurt Pip constantly even if it is noticeablea that this is not what she really wants and at the same tine she knows who to blame for it: Miss Havisham:  "Do you reproach me for being cold? You? … I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame… All I possess is freely yours. 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. "
    Thanks to her life experience, I mean the marriage with Drummel, she learns how to trust her feelings.In the final scene of the novel, she has become her own woman for the first time in the book. As she says to Pip: “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching... I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.”.