How Is Miss Havisham Presented

To start off with, at the beginning of the novel Miss Havisham has the reputation that she is rich and that she is secluded. When Pip first discovers that he will be going to Miss Havisham's he states, “[Everyone in town and Pip hears] Miss Havisham up town-as [a very wealthy] and grim lady who [lives] in a [house] barricaded against robbers, and who [lives a secluded life]” (46). This example shows that everyone in Pip’s town believes and gives Miss Havisham the reputation of being secluded and rich, and this reputation want last long. No one knows much about Miss Havisham so they give her a reputation based on what they know and one that can easily change when they get to know her. Next, when everyone gets to know Miss Havisham they learn how generous yet at the same time how cruel she is. When Miss Havisham shows Pip her cake the text states, “What [does Pip] think that?’ [Miss Havisham asks Pip] pointing with her stick, ‘that, where the cobwebs are?’ ‘[Pip] can’t guess what it is [to Miss Havisham]’ ‘It is a great cake. [Miss Havisham’s] cake!” (78). This example shows, that Pip learns that Miss Havisham has kept her old wedding cake for years, which tarnishes her reputation. This makes her seem crazy and not to mention she’s also very mean and rude to Pip as they walk around the cake. Miss Havisham's reputation changes drastically near the beginning of the book and now is seen as a rude and crazy person. Finally, near the end of the novel, Miss Havisham turns into a kind and apologetic person. After Miss Havisham burns in a fire she realizes what she has done was wrong and she changes. Dickens writes, “What has [Miss Havisham] done.’ And then, ‘When [Estella arrives Miss Havisham means] only to save [Estella] from misery like [Miss Havisham’s]” (374). This example shows that Miss Havisham greatly changes and by changing her reputation improves

The Presentation of Miss Havisham in Chapter 8 and in Chapter 49 of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

‘Miss Havisham’ is a bitter and twisted character from the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens. Carol Ann Duffy takes this character and explores her tragic life in the poem ‘Havisham’. Duffy uses Dark themes, structure, symbolism and other poetic techniques to express Havisham’s hatred for men after her tragic wedding when she was rejected by her fiancé. Duffy’s use of these poetic techniques create a sinister character and makes Havisham feel real to the reader.

The main storyline has to do with Pip’s expectations of becoming a gentleman. To do this he received help from a secret benefactor. For the first half of the novel Pip is convinced that Miss Havisham is the one doing this so one day he and Estella can be together. Dickens creates a story around Pip’s assumption to make this a very logical explanation. Coincidentally right after Pip realizes and confirms he was wrong about his benefactor, an unexpected character reappears. “You acted nobly, my boy,” said he. “Noble Pip! And I have never forgot it!” (Dickens 248) These words ring out of his benefactor’s name. Who appears to be the escaped convict from the beginning who threatened him, known by the name of Magwitch. Magwitch reveals that ever since that day in the graveyard when Pip returned to give him what he requested he has found a job to help Pip out for what he did for him. By doing this secretly for all this

As if a ghost flew by, the woman was no longer her former self. She shielded herself with the snow, almost vanishing out of existence with no trace left behind. The woman was strange according to Charles Dickens. Yet only a few years later the white woman would inspire the character Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham is from a book called Great Expectations, the book was written by Charles Dickens during the Victorian era. In addition the book has many intriguing characters with their own intricate backstories. Character like Miss Havisham, Pip, and Magwitch. Each one of them are imprisoned by previous actions accompaned with mistakes.

It could have been an accident or it may not be. Miss Havisham realized that she has caused so much pain to Pip, she said mean things to him and set up Estella, which is her adopted daughter with Pip. Pip had fallen in love with Estella since the minute they had met. She had treated him bad too, she would say mean things to Pip and he did not care and he was used to people treated him that way. Also it could be because of her wedding day, she was sitting in her rotten wedding dress and that could be a reminder of that

Miss Havisham and Estella are portrayed as cruel individuals who only desire to hurt others mentally. This can be easily seen when Pip meets them for the first time. However, they have self-sacrificed themselves in this book. It is unfortunate that Miss Havisham felt such great sorrow ever since her fiancé left her on their wedding day. After that day, she remained bitter and indifferent towards everyone and everything that happened around her. She self-sacrificed her life to

Miss Havisham was the woman who decided to enact her revenge on mankind by raising Estella to be cold, thus in turn, driving Pip to want to to become a gentleman to become “good enough” for Estella. Even though Estella was actually the daughter of a murderer and a convict, Miss Havisham raised her to be haughty and superficial, so she steps all around the people she deems below her. Pip is one of the unlucky few who get trapped under her footsteps. Mrs. Joe's and Biddy's had significantly less influence than Estella and Miss Havisham, but they still had an effect on Pip’s life. Neither character is particularly developed, as “Biddy... is the novel's one truly virtuous, patient, domestic woman, but as a character she is by contrast bland, like most "good" women in Dickens.”

Havisham is a story which was played and expressed by Miss Havisham. The character Miss Havisham is a name of a character from Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. Throughout the poem she expresses her feelings about the man who had left her at the altar and how it affected her. In the poem there are mixed feelings one minute she remembers her future husband in her sexual dream and the next the poem is violent and wants him dead. Duffy exposes many hidden sides of Miss Havisham such as her pain, her fantasies overall adding depth too her character.

She targets Pip and uses Estella to taunt him, saying things to Pip such as, “Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper- love her, love her, love her!” (Dickens 253) Through Estella, Miss Havisham makes Pip feel ashamed for things he can’t change.

Dickens specifically put this incident in the novel to complement Miss Havisham's character in her downward spiral into insanity. As Pip visits Miss Havisham, he begs for his forgiveness with how much she's messed up Pip's life. More specifically with how she broke her heart by ruining Pip's relationship with Estella. Miss Havisham had realized what she had done

After arriving at this realization, Miss Havisham pleads to Pip, "If you can ever write under my name, `I forgive her,' though ever so long after my broken heart is dust, pray do it!" (370). She is released from her imprisonment by this statement because she realizes that she has caused Pip's heart to be broken in the same manner as her own. Rather than achieving any kind of personal revenge, she has only caused more pain. Miss Havisham comes to this awareness because of Pip's love and forgiveness towards her, reinforcing the novel's theme that people are liberated by their internal confinement by love.

Miss Havisham tells Estella to “break their hearts”. Miss Havisham is extremely vengeful here because she uses Estella as a pawn to go out into the world to make men jealous of her just so that she can break their hearts. Finally, Miss Havisham is vengeful to Pip when she tells him that she has no reason to be kind. “‘But when I fell into the mistake I have so long remained in, at least you led me on?’ said I. ‘Yes,’ she returned, again nodding, steadily, ‘I let you go on.’

The character of Miss Havisham is extremely unique. She is an old, solitarily woman, who lives in deep depression from the day her heart was broken when she was left at the altar. Because of this, she hates all men, and she taught Estella to hate them and to make them suffer. Pip falls in love with Estella and he works as hard as he can to learn how to write and read to impress her.

There is an obvious parallel between Miss Havisham and Pip in this regard: just as Miss Havisham was spurned by her fiancé, Estella has broken Pip's heart. Miss Havisham, in trying to seek personal revenge, has only caused more pain and heartbreak. Next, Miss Havisham tells Pip to love Estella even if she tears his heart to pieces.