Saturday, March 3, 2007

(Week 8) Great Expectations


This week one of our questions was about feeling sympathy for Estella which I hadn’t given much thought because I never really cared for her character. But I have been thinking about her more and her personality. She didn’t have a normal child hood which could have contributed to her cruel emotionless attitude towards Pip and others. As I’m rereading the book, I have been paying more attention to her and feel a bit more sympathy for her but then I think of Pip as a stronger character because he didn’t let the abuse of his childhood consume his life; even though Pip has his own issues, he’s not going around beating up people!

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