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- "You are to wait here, you boy"
- "as if i were a dog in disgrace"
- "humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry"
- "disappeared"
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- Estella is dominant and uses an imperative to assert her influence
- Pip is very aware of the social class gap between them, dogs are often associated with the streets and poverty
- Long list of negative emotions connotes that Estella makes Pip miserable and confused
- Pip constantly chases Estella but she is always out of reach
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- Estella taunts Pip by marrying Drummle and telling him that she will never love him - "there is no softness there, no sentiment"
- Pip is worried that Estella will see him in the forge when he is an apprentice covered in dirt, a metaphor for his social class
- Pip returns to Miss Havisham as a gentleman to find Estella "abroad", Miss Havisham asked "do you feel you've lost her?". Even when Pip feels he is worthy of her, she is out of reach again.
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- Victorian society has strict social conventions and the idea that everybody had their place. Lower social classes were seen to be "dirty" and "scum".
- Dickens was critical of the social hierarchy so presents Estella as cruel and distant to encourage the reader to feel sorry for Pip
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