Estella

Like Pip, Estella is an orphan and a victim. She has been used by her surrogate mother, Miss Havisham; to extract revenge from society. Despite her cold, cynical, manipulative behaviour and the damaging influences in her life, Dickens nevertheless ensures that Estella is still a sympathetic, honest character. and is just what she has been trained to be;(break mens hearts). By giving the reader a sense of her inner struggle to discover and act on her own feelings rather than on the imposed motives of her upbringing, Dickens gives the reader a glimpse of Estella’s inner life, which helps to explain what Pip might love about her, and finally, Estella’s long, painful marriage causes her to develop along the same lines as Pip—that is, she learns, through experience, to rely on and trust in these inner feelings. Yet underneath this rigid unemotional surface is the passion and emotional fury of her parents, Molly and Magwitch. The one time she responds to Pip and lets him kiss her is when he displays rare aggression and forcefulness in beating her husband.Estella is married to the cruel nobleman Drummle, who treats her harshly (beats her) and makes her life miserable for many years.  There is, deep within her, something that responds to emotional fury. The story has a happy ending, when Estella becomes her own woman and says; 

 “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching. . . . I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”