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Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Estella’s origins Though she never knows it herself, Pip finally finds out where Estella comes from. She was the child of Jaggers’s maidservant Molly, a gypsy at that time, and Abel Magwitch.

Detailed explanation-3: -We first meet Molly, Estella’s birth mother, as Jaggers’s housekeeper – a significant moment in Chapter 48. Her manner is nervous and intense. Pip realises Molly is Estella’s biological mother, saying he compared her ‘with other hands, other eyes, other hair, that I knew of’ (Ch.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Even though Estella is the daughter of the convict Magwitch, she is adopted into a higher class both by Miss Havisham as a child and the nobleman Drummle as an adult.