Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Blog#2 Estella
The names of the characters in this book show their personality to the reader. For example, the name Estella shows her personality because the name Estella comes from a latin word that means star. She is described as "a girl about my (Pip's) own age. She seemed much older than I, of course, being a girl, and beautiful and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she has been one-and-twenty and a queen" (56). Dickens describes Estella as a beautiful and self-possessed girl who was a queen. This description shows that she shares many characteristics of a star because a star is also beautiful and self-possessed when it shines in the night sky. Estella shares many personality traits with her name because her name means star and she shows many traits of stars.
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Yes, Estella is beautiful and “self-possessed”, but there is more to her than this. Her name comes from the Latin word for star, which is also beautiful, but a star can also be inaccessible. Pip describes her as a “scornful lady neither visible nor responsive” (59). She seems somewhat cold-hearted and resists Pip’s presence in her home. I agree that Estella is like a star, but in a different way than you described in your blog post.
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