Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Blog #2, Topic #2
The name estella, having a Latin origin, means "star." Estella's name accurately reflects her personality, due to her arrogance and beauty. In our modern society, many celebrities (also known as "stars") are very stuck up and can be quite rude to other people, exactly like Estella. In the text, Estella degrades Pip's card-playing strategies and abilities; for example, she scoffed at the fact that Pip refers to knaves as jacks, thinking it to be too "commoner." Clearly, Estella thinks lowly of Pip because she believes that he is not as sophisticated as she is. In addition to her arrogance, Estella is also very pretty. When Ms. Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella, one of the characteristics as which he describes Estella is pretty. Just as Pip admires Estella's beauty, many people appreciate the beauty of stars (both actual stars in the sky and movie stars).
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Estella's name truly reflects her personality because her name means star. Stars in the night sky are beautiful and arrogant just like Estella because they look beautiful in the night sky, and they show arrogance because some stars show their light more than others. However, not all celebrities (also known as stars) are not necessarily beautiful and arrogant. An example of a celebrity that is not beautiful and arrogant is Dick Van Dyke. Currently, Dick van Dyke is 83 years old and he is not beautiful like an average young celebrity. Also, Dick Van Dyke does not have an arrogant personality. In fact, Dick Van Dyke thinks negatively about how many people will watch his show Diagnosis Murder on the Larry King show: "Well, I don't know. I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't" (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/22/lkl.00.html). Instead of commenting on how Diagnosis Murder is so great and how well he acts on that show, Dick Van Dyke describes how the show does not have as much of a chance of succeeding as other newer TV shows which clearly shows that Dick Van Dyke is not arrogant.
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