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Essay / Miss Havisham Essay - 690
If she favors you, love her. If she hurts you, love her. If she tears your heart – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!' » (Dickens 224). The corrupt Miss Havisham begs Pip to love, love, love Estella because that is her purpose in life. Immediately after Miss Havisham's wedding scene, she returns home and asks her lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, to find a girl she could "love". Instead, she grew up with his twisted morals, arranged dates with young men, and repeatedly told him to rip these men's hearts out. Her desperation for wanting Estella to be loved was shown when Miss Havisham repeated the word love three times, not just once. Miss Havisham wants to break men's hearts. The quote mentions, "even if she hurts you", Miss Havisham's goal of making men unhappy was given to Estella because she was cultivated to hurt others. Boys like Pip have fallen in love with Estella for her beauty and can't help but realize that she is emotionally damaged. She will never be able to love the man of her dreams because of Miss Havisham's blindness and