Miss Havisham Fire

Leter in the novel Pip learns that Miss Havisham's bitterness, and hate began when she used to date a young man whom she loved very deeply, and after agreeing to marry him, and on their wedding day, she discovered that he doesn't love her, and has stolen a large amount of money from her with the help of her half-brother, and ran away. From that day on she stayed in her dark room, shutting out any sunlight. Embarrassed and ashamed of the mortification she faced on that day made her live the life of a hermit.

Miss Havisham plays a major role in Great Expectations. She portrayed a depressed, mad woman full of anger and misery. Miss Havisham is one of the, if not the most selfish character throughout the novel. After she was jilted on her wedding day, she has remained “stuck” in that day. As an outcome of this, she has grown with hatred for all men and uses her adopted daughter, Estella to get revenge. Miss Havisham’s self-serving character shows when she takes control of Estella’s life and she becomes a victim of Miss Havisham’s teachings. She raises Estella with no knowledge of what love is or how to love. Instead, Miss Havisham teaches her to torture, hate and break the hearts of men, especially to Pip. "That girl is hard and haughty and capricious

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

In the story Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Dickens uses fire as a motif. Throughout the story, he uses fire as a representation of the start and the end to things. He also uses it to represent understanding, but when it comes to Miss Havisham he uses it to describe destruction. The fire is used to describe Miss Havisham's personality, and also is symbolic to what it does to Pip. There are many different ways that the fire in Miss Havisham's home is symbolic to the character of Miss Havisham.

An imagine Charles Dickens has left in my mind is Miss. Havisham. I see this faceless, all bone, yellow skinned lady wearing one shoe and a wedding dress. Miss. Havisham was originally described on page 47 and she was described as a weary, wore down woman and I was having fun imagining this peculiar lady. I see her like Maleficent, because she was written as very boney, again on page 47. I just imagine her cheekbones being very prominent, like Maleficent. I also see her like looking kind of deranged because on page 47 Dickens wrote; "She uttered the word with a eager look, and with a weird smile". I think the weird smile part is what lead me to believe she looks deranged. I can't see her face, but I can see her features like; sunken eyes, that

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.

The fire at Miss Havishmans house is symbolic of her life dwindling away. It also shows Miss Havishman repent how she treated pip earlier in his life. Some others think it was a suicide attempt of Miss Havishman because of how she treated Pip and Estella. I don't think it was {{not}} a suicide attempt but to get pip and Estella to sort of apologize for how she taught Estella to treat men and how bad she treated pip in which she does.

Miss Havisham is an example of a single minded vengeful woman whose life consisted of being cold hearted with a grudge against all men. Dickens could have been drawing a comparison between the destructive nature of fire to Miss Havisham’s cold cruel mind.Another twist could be Dickens use the fire to also represent the real effect of the warmth from fire, she was always cold towards the few people that entered her gates. Fire is reluctant, as Miss Havisham is reluctant to have people in her home. Though they were allowed she was not at all warm towards them, accepted them under false

A brief look into Miss Havisham’s past clearly displays the spiral effect of her ignorance which accentuates her characterization. In short, her wealth is taken advantage of by her fiancé who ends up

he use of fire is seen throughout Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It symbolizes many things, rebirth, life, cleansing, passion, and destruction. However, none greater than the fire in Miss Havisham's home.

Dickens added a fire to story as a way to punish Miss Havisham for all of the bad things she did to people. Miss Havisham was rude and mean to all people including her family that she would invite over her house. Miss Havisham says to Pip “You made your own snares. I never made them”. After having said this to Pip previously “If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces- and it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper—love her, love her, lover her”. Now all the while Miss Havisham has been telling Estella she should despise Pip. Miss Havisham never really cared about much of anything after she was duped out of her fortune and left at the altar. Her behavior symbolically foretold what would happen to

The Vengeance of Miss Havisham Throughout Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations, Miss Havisham is portrayed as a very mysterious character. Her unknown past makes it hard to form a definite opinion of her from the start. In addition, the unpredictability of Miss Havisham’s words and actions help to keep the reader intrigued up until the very end. Several of the character traits these actions reveal to the reader about Miss Havisham include that she is secluded, manipulative, and hurt.

Question: How does Dickens in his portrayal of Miss Havisham explore the theme of isolation?

Hopefully this makes sense. What I think symbolizes Miss. Havisham would be a sword, smashed plates, a broken charm, money, and last but not least a wilting flower. A sword represents revenge in which Miss. Havisham uses Estella to make Pip fall for her and later to reject him. Smashed plates represents Miss. Havisham’s anger towards men. A broken charm represents Miss. Havisham’s heartbreak at the alter the day of her wedding day. A German Shepherd represents control as in when Miss. Havisham controls Estella to do harm to Pip. Last but not least a wilting flower. A wilting flower represents Miss. Havisham’s loneliness that kept her in her wedding dress since the day she was jilted. Everything around her were getting older and older as the

Havisham is a 16 line and four stanza poem with four lines making up each stanza. This poem shows the nature of an old woman after being devastated after being left at her wedding day and having lost her fortune to the man who left her. The four stanza poem is a harsh reflection of anger, pain, and disbelief; it’s a sad tale of a wedding and life gone horribly wrong that still haunts the character. In my review, I will explore the poem through each line and comment on the literary terms and the meaning of each line.