If she favors you, love her. If she hurts you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as she gets older and stronger, it tears more deeply – love her, love her, love her!'” (Dickens 224). The corrupt Miss Havisham begs Pip to love, love, love Estella because that is his purpose in life. Soon after the wedding scene, Miss Havisham returns home and asks her lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, to find a girl she can “love.” Instead, she grew up with her dishonest morals, arranged play dates with young gentlemen, and repeatedly told her to tear that boy's heart into pieces. Her desperation for Estella to be loved was shown when Miss Havisham repeated the word love three times, not just once. Miss Havisham wants men's hearts to be crushed. The quote mentions, “even if it hurts you,” Miss Havisham's goal of making men miserable was bestowed upon Estella because she was cultivated to hurt others. Boys like Pip fall in love with Estella for her beauty and can't help but realize that she is emotionally hurt. She will never be able to love the man of her dreams because of Miss Havisham's blindness and
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