 According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true. The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all ; I knew to my sorrow,...  All the Year Round - Page 11861Full view - About this book
 | Robert M. Polhemus - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 395 pages
...sorrow . . . that I loved her against reason, . . . against peace, against hope, against happiness. ... I loved her none the less because I knew it, and it...had devoutly believed her to be human perfection" (29:253-54). That is the irrational erotic force that gives romantic love a bad name among priests... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 1992 - 436 pages
...true. The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I...no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoudy believed her to be human perfection. I so shaped out my walk as to arrive at the gate at my... | |
 | Judy Clamon - Study Aids - 2013 - 150 pages
...love that Pip feels for Estella. Pip says, "I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could... | |
 | Joel Marks, Roger T. Ames, Robert C. Solomon - Philosophy - 1995 - 340 pages
...true. The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I...had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. (Pip's reflections in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.) Cf. also Hamlyn 1978; Kraut 1983, 1986b;... | |
 | Donald Hawes - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 310 pages
...with Joe in the honest old Pip Pipchin, Mrs forge.' Estella continues to spurn him, although he loves her 'against reason, against promise, against peace,...hope, against happiness, against all discouragement there could be'. She marries Bentley Drummle despite Pip's urging her not to do so. Pip's 'expectations'... | |
 | Norman Page - Novelists, English - 1999 - 456 pages
...— sympathy — sentiment — nonsense." * "Yet," says Pip, "I loved Estella. ... I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I...happiness, against all discouragement that could be." * He says to her, "You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Campbell - Cycles in literature - 2003 - 279 pages
...fatal of all Dickens's femmes fatales; yet Pip, even though he realizes that his passion for her is "against reason, against promise, against peace, against...happiness, against all discouragement that could be," nevertheless finds her "irresistible" (GE, 219). This tyrannical control over Pip's imagination and... | |
 | 602 pages
...true. The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I...had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. I so shaped out my walk as to arrive at the gate at my old time. When I had rung at the bell with an... | |
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