I think the highlight of the whole show is writing about the twisted humanity of Estella's adoptive mother. Stop all the clocks in the house, the wedding scene was preserved like a mummy, full of sad memories of spider webs, Estella's adoptive mother was abandoned by a man at the wedding, so she inquired about a little girl who was abandoned by her parents from a famous lawyer. estella, so she came to the manor for adoption.
She has been deceived by a man once, and she thinks that all girls can be deceived by a man, so she wants to save one, which is her long-cherished wish. In fact, the more unhappy a woman is in her marriage, the more she wants to control her daughter to complete her unfulfilled heartbreak. She wants to control Estella and wants to use Estella to hurt a man's heart. So she found the male protagonist Pip, the adopted son of a low-class blacksmith. It is estimated that the battle has already been set up - first let Pip fall in love with Estella, and then dismantle them with class pressure "you are the son of a little blacksmith, you are not worthy", in order to realize his desire for control and revenge on the man.
Pip is the kind of person who is very tolerant by nature. He saw the piano, the picture book, and the globe in Estella's manor, which broadened his horizons, so despite being at the mercy of all kinds of inexplicable, he still likes to see Estella, probably Because estella is a symbol of nobility and an enlightener of "the outside world is wonderful", after all, he has never seen these in the dim blacksmith shop, so he has curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
Estella kisses Pip when she sees Pip punch the noble kid who was bullying her. The adoptive mother watched this scene, the time has come, and the time has come to break up the two of them. So I asked Pip's family to take him back and be your blacksmith at ease. The adoptive mother hurts Pip badly the first time, as she wishes.
Pip deeply felt that from his humble background, it was too difficult to fall in love with Estella. At this time, he suddenly got an anonymous property. He thought it was a "remodeling plan" given to him by Estella's adoptive mother, so he set out on the road with the wish of transforming himself into a gentleman worthy of Estella, and went to London, gradually entering the upper class ball. and place. However, he later met the arrogant man who exposed his humble origin, who later robbed Pip's estella, and finally estella actually married him at the urging of his adoptive mother (estella was abused after marriage, but fortunately a horse took her husband trampled to death). This is the second time the adoptive mother has hurt Pip.
When I came back to estella's adoptive mother to borrow money, the adoptive mother said that I deliberately hurt you (because of revenge), please forgive me. As I said, Pip is the kind of person who is very forgiving by nature, and who is willing to be considerate of others even when he is wounded. Pip said, I forgive you. At this time, the adoptive mother was at a loss.
In fact, the anonymous property was given by Estella's biological father, because on the way to escape from prison, Estella's father threatened Pip, who was passing by, because he urgently needed a file to unlock the chains. Although Pip was frightened, he still stole it. A file and a piece of pie, Estella's biological father was moved by the piece of pie, so he later gave his property to Pip, and Pip accepted it without knowing it, and was able to go to London. So estella is not an aristocrat either. Everything is controlled by Estella's adoptive mother.
Later, Estella's husband died. Before her biological father died, Pip told him the truth and said, "Your daughter is not dead. She is beautiful and deeply loved. I love her." Estella, who became a widow, returned to the manor. , Pip also came back here, and the lovers got married.
Therefore, I think the tragedy is not actually caused by birth and class, but the heart that the adoptive mother can't let go of after being hurt. Of course, because she is a rich man who owns a magnificent manor, estella and Pip met, and there were a series of twists and turns in love later.
Although Estella lives under the hatred education of her adoptive mother, she still knows who she really loves, and she is also trying to get rid of her adoptive mother's control over her. The adoptive mother is always saying "you abandoned me", "you are too ruthless", and estella says "you trained me to be like this". In the paradigm of mother-daughter love and murder, it is very necessary for daughters to subconsciously ask their mothers for mental control. Psychologically speaking, the time of awakening is also the time of disintegration. Estella is breaking away from her mother's control, which means that she has awakened to the pursuit of true love.
These are my thoughts after watching the three episodes. I was making an analogy with The Great Gatsby's class charge, but the more I looked back, the more I realized that Dickens wasn't talking about class, it was a pretense, and class was easy to cross (like Pip's). A good friend broke up with his aristocratic family in order to marry his humble girlfriend, and found true love across the class). Class may be just a tool to achieve the purpose of human nature.
I haven't read the original book yet, so the delicate human nature will be more subtle in the lines.
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