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Pip and Estella
Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.
The original version, in which Pip and Estella do not get together, remains as a note in most editions.
The character Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, describes the name to Pip, the protagonist, this way:
Pip, the narrator, is the eventual victim ; and Miss Havisham readily dresses Estella in jewels to prettify her all the more and to exemplify all the more the vast social gulf between her and Pip.
It is this that drives Pip to ultimately agree to become a gentleman, and when, as a young adult, Estella leaves for France to receive education, Miss Havisham eagerly asks him, " Do you feel you have lost her ?”
Miss Havisham repents late in the novel when Estella leaves to marry Pip's rival, Bentley Drummle ; and she realises that she has caused Pip ’ s heart to be broken in the same manner as her own ; rather than achieving any kind of personal revenge, she has only caused more pain.
The last words she speaks in the novel are ( in a delirium ) to Pip, referencing both Estella and a note she, Miss Havisham, has given him with her signature: " Take the pencil and write under my name, ' I forgive her!
Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady.
Estella states throughout the text, that she does not love Pip, however this is contradicted by the fact that she shows numerous times in the novel that she holds Pip in a much higher regard compared to other men, and doesn't want to break his heart like she does with the others that she seduces.
One of the possible meanings of this is that Estella, even though she doesn't acknowledge the fact, loves Pip.
Pip is fascinated with the lovely Estella, though her heart is as cold as ice.
Estella criticizes Pip's honest but " coarse " ways, and from that point on, Pip grows dissatisfied with his position in life and, eventually, with his former values and friends as well.
Pip spends years as companion to Miss Havisham and, by extension, Estella.
Estella warns Pip that she cannot love him, or anyone.
In fact, Pip discovers that Miss Havisham's lessons have worked all too well on Estella ; when both are visiting the elderly woman, Miss Havisham makes gestures of affection towards her adopted daughter and is shocked that Estella is neither able nor willing to return them.

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Pip is drawn into the fight when Thanos recruits the Watch.
Pip is next seen when Hela, Norse goddess of death, appears in disguise and hires X-Factor Investigations to find a missing pendant of Thor's hammer.
Pip becomes convinced that Molly is Estella's mother during his second dinner at Jaggers's place, when he realizes that their eyes are the same and that, when unoccupied, their fingers perform a knitting action.
Both Cherri and Peggy were re-introduced to their offspring in 2008 when youngsters Ben and Pip, who had graduated from the Nursery Group, joined Hananya's.
Pip fights ( and sometimes argues ) with a magical sword, Excalibur Junior, and often wears a sturdy dragonhide jacket when adventuring.
also suffers from arachnophobia, which is a disadvantage when Pip runs into giant spiders.
He returns as a ghost when Pip visits the Ghastly Kingdom of the Dead and Pip discovers that some of his dark influence remains in the last volume.
for short )-Creates a magical cap which, when worn, shrinks Pip to the size of six inches, thus allowing travel through small passageways.
for short )-Allows Pip to levitate straight up or down, but if used indoors it causes a concussion when you hit the ceiling and the loss of half your current Life Points.
Stan is upset that he has to go and becomes even more angered when he is locked in a room with nerdy " Melvin " classmates that he does not like: Pip, Butters, and Dougie.
* In an episode of Back at the Barnyard, when Otis and Pip watch a DVD, at the beginning there is a parody of the THX logo that reads " BYX ", and the Deep Note is sung by a choir.
Pip, however, manages to win when Kevin tricks the Chinese into calling him French ; he single-handedly annihilates the entire Chinese team with one throw, but by this point everyone has decided they do not want to play dodgeball anyway and he gets no credit for it and they all tell him to shut up.
They first eliminate Pip during a baseball game when he asked for tea and crumpets.
Mitzi and Edmund had been persuaded by Miss Marple to play parts in tripping Charlotte Blacklock up ; Miss Marple's plans were almost brought down when Phillipa admitted to being Pip, but Inspector Craddock thought fast enough to turn around and claim Edmund was after Phillipa's money.

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Through such details Dickens indicates at the outset that guilt is a part of the ironic bond between Pip and Magwitch which is so unpredictably to alter both their lives.
Pip himself is to feel the terror of Orlick's `` murderous hand '' in his secret rendezvous at the sluicehouse on the marshes.
It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.
When the snobbery that alienates Pip from Joe finally gives way before the deeper and stronger force of love, the reunion is marked by an embarrassed handshake at which Pip exclaims: `` No, don't wipe it off -- for God's sake, give me your blackened hand ''!!
The respectability which money confers implies a different etiquette, and, upon taking up the life of a London gentleman, Pip must learn from Herbert Pocket that `` the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under ''.
* Stuart " Stu " O ' Hallaran ( Pip Mushin ) is the office's main cameraman and shoots most of Brooke's and Marty's stories.
Tolland County is briefly referenced in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville as the place that the ill-fated ship mate, Pip, comes from.
He wakes up to find himself seemingly unharmed by the encounter and in the company of a pleasant individual named " Pip " who tells Rocky that he is his guide and has been instructed to grant him whatever he desires.
He believes Pip is trying to con him and asks him if he is a cop.
Pip says he has no wallet but obligingly gives him a large amount of money and is willing to give him as much as he desires.
Rocky believes Pip wants him to commit a crime on his behalf and that the money is an incentive.
Rocky holds Pip at gunpoint, following him to a luxurious apartment that Pip insists is Rocky's.
Rocky now realizes that he is dead and immediately assumes that he has died and gone to Heaven and that Pip must be his guardian angel.
Pip says that won't be possible, as this " paradise " is his own private world, and none of the people are real except for Rocky and Pip.
The Great Attractor is mentioned in the " Pip and Flinx " series by novelist Alan Dean Foster, in the book Flinx's Folly.
In the novelisation written by Pip and Jane Barker, it is revealed that the Rani, and the Master, escaped the growing T-Rex due to the same time spillage that made it mature ; it grew so rapidly that it broke its spine on the ceiling of the Rani's TARDIS.
Flinx's constant companion since childhood is a minidrag named Pip, a flying, empathic snake capable of spitting a highly corrosive and violently neurotoxic venom.
Bougainville and its 1990s struggle for independence is the setting for the 2006 novel Mister Pip, by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones.

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