Miss Havisham Essay

Miss Havisham raised Estelle to make every man that encounters her fall in love with her, and that includes young Pip who like everone else was mesmerized by her beauty and charm, not knowing that her beauty is his demise.

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

Miss Havisham has waited years for a marriage that is not going to happen. She has been heartbroken for over a decade. Being heartbroken in the way she was can cause someone to be heartless and cold. The fire in her home never seems to let off any heat. This could be because Miss Havisham is such a cold person. The way that there is more smoke than there seems to be fire, just shows that Miss Havisham is more heartless than she is caring.

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.

Pip is later told by the well-known lawyer Mr. Jaggers that he is to join him in London to receive the education needed to become a gentleman. Pip’s opportunity is set up by a mysterious unknown benefactor, who Pip believes to be Miss Havisham.

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

In the novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, there is a variety of examples that symbolize different things. One of the examples used as a symbol repeatedly in the novel is fire. Though there was a fire in multiple areas of the novel, the one scene in where fire played the biggest role was the scene of the fire at Miss Havisham's home. The fire is a symbol of her wasting away her life, her coldness towards people as ironic as that is, and as a source of punishment and cleansing.

Furthermore, this means that Miss Havishams planned to manipulate Estella to make Pip Fall in love with her and break his heart. Alternatively, Miss Havisham wants to taunt Estella on how to break mens heart and chooses Pip as foundation to break his heart.

The fire represents a punishment for Miss Havisham for how she raised Estella and how she treated Pip. Miss Havisham took in Estella as a little girl and turned her into cold-hearted woman who looked her nose down on anyone who was not a gentleman. Miss Havisham also taught Estella to treat men with contempt. In other words, Miss Havisham turned Estella into a young version of herself. Miss Havisham did this just because she was jilted by Compeyson. Miss Havisham

Before Miss Havisham's dress caught on fire, Pip asked her for 900 pounds to invest in Herbert's career. She agreed. She asked Pip if there was anything else she could do for him but he assured her that he didn't want anything belonging to her. Miss Havisham felt guilty for everything she had done to him and begged for his forgiveness. Pip assured her that she had been forgiven. She realized that she did to Pip what Compeyson had done to her. Later, we see Pip walking through the garden, looks up towards Miss Havisham's window and sees that she's on fire. In an attempt to put out the fire, Pip runs into the house, pulls the tablecloth off of the wedding table and wraps Miss Havisham in it. He succeeds in helping her but not without severely burning his arms. She eventually succumbed to her wounds and died.

Her bitterness to the world is shown when she was first talking to pip and she tells him to touch his heart, she says, “‘Do you know what I touch here?’ She said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side. ‘Yes ma’am.’ (It made me think of the young man)‘What do I touch?’ ‘Your heart.’

Many questions have been answered after reading all of these chapters. I found out why Miss Havisham wears her wedding dress all the time and why her clocks are all stopped at twenty minutes to nine. I also found out that Estella was raised by Miss Havisham to manipulate and break men's hearts. Also, in the last chapter, I found out who Pip’s benefactor is, it’s the convict, Magwitch, that he helped when he was a child at the beginning of the book.

Pip experiences mental violence when he meets Estella and Miss Havisham for the first time. They were both very mean to him. Miss Havisham was mean to him (and other men), because her heart was broken once. Her fiancé left her on her wedding day, and she was so heartbroken that she was determined to never move beyond that. Her broken heart made her grow cruel , and bend on revenge on all men.

Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations narrates the coming of age of Philip Pirrip, better known as Pip. Throughout the novel, Pip, along with many other characters, grows both morally and socially. Miss Havisham, a seemingly generous elderly woman is a reoccurring character who is ultimately responsible for much of the plot. Throughout his novel, Charles Dickens utilizes the theme of moral improvement. This theme is most evident through the debilitated Miss Havisham.

Miss Havisham is initially introduced as an individual of high class, in which she possesses considerable amounts of wealth and power, but lacks a humane attitude. Portrayed through Pip’s point of view, she summons him to Satis House, in which she states, “I want diversion, and I have