"It was impossible for me to avoid seeing that she cared to attract me; that she made herself winning; and would have won me even if the task had needed pains. Yet this made me none the happier, for, even if she had not taken that tone of our being disposed of by others, I should have felt that she held my heart in her hand because she willfully chose to do it, and not because it would have wrung any tenderness in her, to crush it and throw it away" -Great Expectations, Chapter XXXIII.
Well, I'm not sure if anyone has found a better way to describe the pain of adolescence for boys. This describes it perfectly. There's an awareness going on, when Pip realizes that it is more torturous to be in love with someone than to be out of it. Pip and Estella's intentions are not the same; Pip is in love because he doesn't know how to get out of love. Estella, however, has figured out the game. She wins over Pip not out of love, but out of the desire to capture him in her throngs, to force love out of him so that she can control him. THat's what makes the last sentence so painful; Pip realizes that she does not love him because she cannot control it. She consciously loves him to possess him, and would have no problem ripping his heart out to prove her control.
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