Who is Estella's real mother?

Miss Havisham is a character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella.

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Who is Estella's real parents?

Who are Estella's parents? At the end of the novel, Pip discovers that Estella is the daughter of Magwitch and Molly, a woman who now works as Jagger's servant after being convicted of murder.
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Is Molly Estella's mother?

Through his friends, Pip eventually discovers that Molly was once married to Abel Magwitch, and that she is the mother of his beloved Estella.
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Is Estella Miss Havisham's daughter?

Living with Miss Havisham at Satis House is her adopted daughter, Estella, whom she is teaching to torment men with her beauty.
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Is Magwitch Estella's father?

Summary: Chapter 50

Herbert tells Pip the part of Magwitch's story that the convict originally left out, the story of the woman in his past. The story matches that of Jaggers's housekeeper, Molly. Magwitch, therefore, is Molly's former common-law husband and Estella's father.
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Who is Estella's mother in Cruella?

Catherine enrolled Estella in primary school where she urged her daughter to be Estella instead of Cruella, while Estella made one friend Anita Darling, she refused to fit into or be bullied by the other kids, who treated her as an outcast due to her half-black and half-white hair.
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What is Miss Havisham's secret?

Pip reminds Herbert to tell him Miss Havisham's story. This is Herbert's account of Miss Havisham: She was a spoiled little only child until her dad (a country gentleman who owned a brewery) secretly married a cook. When the cook died, he told Miss Havisham that she had a half-brother named Arthur.
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Why did Miss Havisham's husband leave her?

On the wedding day, while she was dressing, Miss Havisham received a letter from Compeyson and realised he had defrauded her and she had been left at the altar.
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Who is Miss Havisham's half-brother?

Arthur Miss Havisham's half-brother from her father's second marriage to his cook. He is disinherited by his father and hates Miss Havisham.
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Why does Jaggers show Molly's wrists?

By drawing attention to Molly's impressive strength, Mr. Jaggers accentuates the boys' relative weakness. His claim that “very few men have the power of wrist" that Molly has could be seen as an attempt to humble them.
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Who married Pip?

Pip rushes home to reconcile with Joe and decides to marry Biddy when he gets there.
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Why does Joe Call Pip sir?

Joe calls Pip sir in recognition of his 'gentleman' status. It also suggests the disconnect between Joe and Pip that now exists because Pip has become a snob. Pip's snobbish nature is horrible. He has become disdainful towards people who he now deems beneath him.
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Who does Pip think is Estella's mother?

He realizes that Molly is Estella's mother. On the way home, Wemmick tells Pip how Molly was on trial years ago for murdering an older, stronger woman who was allegedly having an affair with Molly's husband. Jaggers was her lawyer, and this case is the one that actually made him successful.
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How is Estella Magwitch's daughter?

Though she represents Pip's first longed-for ideal of life among the upper classes, Estella is actually even lower-born than Pip; as Pip learns near the end of the novel, she is the daughter of Magwitch, the coarse convict, and thus springs from the very lowest level of society.
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Who is Startop?

Startop is Pip's friend and fellow student of Mr. Pocket's. He, along with Herbert, saves Pip from being killed by Orlick, and he helps Pip and Magwitch make their great escape at the end of the novel by rowing the boat.
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Who broke Miss Havisham's heart?

Pip later learns from Herbert that Compeyson was the same man who broke Miss Havisham's heart. Pip decides he will take no more of Magwitch's money. However, he feels responsible for the danger the man is in and will find a way to get him safely out of the country.
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What does Miss Havisham's wedding dress symbolize?

The wedding dress and the wedding feast symbolize Miss Havisham's past, and the stopped clocks throughout the house symbolize her determined attempt to freeze time by refusing to change anything from the way it was when she was jilted on her wedding day.
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Is Miss Havisham a ghost?

In Great Expectations, it is Miss Havisham who from time to time appears as a ghost. She is described as the “Witch of the place” (ch. 11, 85) and for this reason, is endowed with power to transform herself into anyone she likes.
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How does Pip come to realize Magwitch is Estella's father?

Herbert tells Pip how much Magwitch has "improved," and about Magwitch's wife. When Herbert relates that she killed another woman and their child in a jealous rage, Pip tells Herbert that Magwitch must be Estella's father.
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How did Compeyson blackmail Magwitch?

Afraid of being sent to jail or worse for being the cause of a child's death, Magwitch never went to the authorities or pursued his wife. Compeyson knew this story and used it to blackmail Magwitch into submission. This ends Magwitch's story. Pip nearly spits jellybeans.
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Is Miss Havisham based on a real person?

Eliza Emily Donnithorne (8 July 1821 – 20 May 1886) was an Australian woman best known as a possible inspiration for the character of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations.
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Who killed Cruella's mom?

In the TV series Once Upon a Time, Cruella's mother appears in one episode ("Sympathy for the De Vil"). Her name is Madeline and she tries to stop Cruella from killing people (her step-fathers), but then she got killed by her own Dalmatians when Cruella obtained the power to control animals.
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Is Genghis pregnant Cruella?

Cruella, in short order, has established that Genghis is pregnant, and that Cruella has given away two of her puppies to people she considers friends. Roger, a former lawyer for Baroness von Hellman, and Anita, a reporter with whom Cruella was friends with in childhood, are both recipients of those puppies.
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What happened to Estella's mother in Cruella?

In Cruella's climax, she gets the devastating news that changes everything. The Baroness and her dogs were the reason that Estella's mother was dead. That discovery caused Estella to permanently transform into Cruella. A good villain origin story adds depth and layers to the existing character.
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