Treading Water One’s desire to control another is often a desperate attempt to control one’s own life. One who feels helpless, uses her power to shape and dictate another, seemingly unimportant life. However, to go through life confident, only to discover that one’s life is being dictated by another is both depressing and empowering. In Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, the female characters of Miss Havisham, Estella and Biddy, display enormous power over …showed first 75 words of 2102 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2102 total…realization and acknowledgment of those that love one softens the rawest of emotions. The struggle of Miss Havisham and Estella to maintain control over society, symbolizes a struggle to maintain control over their own lives. The unhappiness caused by this proves to be the best teacher. Dickens work, Great Expectations, directly shows the reader the harsh repercussions of a person’s desire to control another and the discontent often brought to that person’s life.