How successful is Dickens in his presentation of female characters?

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She fills Pip’s mind and heart once again. marriage to her becomes his dream. To him, she is an idealised image and a vague aspiration rather than a real hope, which he seems to realise, but the binding of Estellas spell over him keeps him ‘devoted’ to her...
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The adult Estella is flirtatious but cold. She does however show a warming to Pip, but tells him many times that she “has no heart”. (Chapters 29, 33, and 38). We are given odd glimpses of and unhappy childhood, especially in chapter 33. She does not seem to understand why she is emotionally appealing to Pip, especially in chapter 34...
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