"Love her, love her, love her"

""Love her, love her, love her!  How does

she use you?""

""Love her, love her, love her!  If

she favours you, love her.  If she wounds you, love her.  If she

tears your heart to pieces ­ and as it gets older and stronger, it

will tear deeper ­ love her, love her, love her!""

""Hear me, Pip!  I adopted her to be loved.  I bred her and educated

her, to be loved.  I developed her into what she is, that she might

be loved.  Love her!""

(all from chapter 29, page 180)

In my first post on this blog I said that i had named my blog "Love her, love her, love her" because I had found it an interesting poignant repeated line in the book, bu I have come to realise over the course of this project that it completely fits with my concept of Miss Havisham living her life through Estella now she has been deprived of her own life. The quote now means more to me and has become even more poignant because I think Miss Havisham repeated it and desperately wanted Pip to love Estella so much not just so she could break his heart but so she could feel loved through Estella now that she couldn't feel loved herself.. It's all fallen into place!