Estella Havisham

Estella Havisham (best known in literature simply as Estella) is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady. Pip and Estella meet when he is brought to Miss Havisham's ill-kept mansion, Satis House, ostensibly to satisfy the elder Miss Havisham's "sick fancy" to be entertained by watching Pip have his heart broken by Estella. Estella states throughout the text, that she does not love Pip, however this is contradicted by the fact that she shows numerous times in the novel that...