Miss Havisham's Use Of Fire In Great Expectations

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

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The Vengeful Miss Havisham - Great Expectations. In Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Miss Havisham is a complex character whose past remains a mystery. We know about her broken engagement, an event that changes her life forever. Miss Havisham desperately wants revenge, and Estella, her adopted daughter, is the perfect tool to carry out her motives.

Charles Dickens included this incident of the fire at Miss Havisham's house in his novel, Great Expectations, to symbolize the personality of Miss Havisham. Although a fire should warm a room, the fire in her house seems to keep the house cold. At first Pip notices that there are no fires there. They are extinguished representing that the is no life there. The house, like Miss Havisham are wasting away.

The fire in Miss Havisham's home means a a lot to Great Expectations. Miss Havisham is a sort of foster parent to Estella. Due to this, she serves a major role in the book. Towards the end of the book, Miss Havisham begins to wither away as she gets old. It's explained in a horrifically sad way for other characters such as Pip, as he takes interest in this and is there as it happens.

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

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.

Fire is a symbol that cannot be described in one word. Fire represents destruction, death, hostility, unpredictability, and the potential for limitless violence. Fire, however, also has a good side to it. Fire can be health, hospitality, control, food, shelter, light, and strength. With these characteristics in mind, fire has a number of different connotations. Many of these connotations can be found in one book. Fire, in William Golding’s book, Lord of the Flies, is a complex symbol, representing anarchy and the darkness inside of us, civilization and the light in all of us, and hope, the constant motivator for our survival.

I feel that the fire at Miss Havisham was very symbolic. Throughout Great Expecations, Miss Havisham is portrayed as a cold, unloving person. It is referenced throughout the novel the events of her wedding day, and how she was abandoned.

In chapter eleven of Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens, a fire takes place at Miss Havisham's home. Fire, throughout this novel, is symbolic, for it represents warmth, understanding, desire, and destruction. In this novel, fire is playing a big role in making the reader understand more about the characters and their story. There are several symbols of which fire represents, such as Miss Havisham wasting away, similar to her home on the day of the fire. Or, perhaps, when a fire was actually lit, the fire was reluctant, just as Miss Havisham was reluctant to have people in her home. Or maybe it represents Miss Havisham, who had allowed family into her home, but was unwelcoming and unkind to them.

Brontë uses fire and ice in this chapter to represent Jane mood and behavior. The fire which is represented in this chapter is Jane’s anger and passion. When arguing with Mrs.Reed about her remarks, the passionate hate, and anger of Mrs.Reed is released and Jane let it all out. Ice represent something cool, relaxed, and chill. In this case, it represents the anger of Jane that is relieved, after Jane finished arguing with Mrs.Reed, she feels that her anger began to die off, and she becomes relax. The motif in the chapter is how after the fire is fully released, that is how ice can form. Jane could not have become relax if she never was in full with passion and

When Pip first comes by Miss Havisham’s house he notices that the fires are extinguished. Nothing could have survived through all that chaos. Miss Havisham however was lucky to survive. Pip says these very words as he sees the extinguished fires. ”I saw her pass among the extinguished fires, and ascend some light iron stairs, and go out by a gallery high overhead, as if she were going out into the sky. “ Pip also said; “A fire had been lately kindled in the damp old fashioned grate, and it was more disposed to go out than to burn up. “

In chapter five we learn about how several authors when writing on a topic chooses sides and how they argue their position against others. The author writes for a purpose as well as an audience. The purpose of the author choosing sides is to allow readers to alter the way they view the issue; maybe in a better or worse way or even the same. Sometimes the reading also helps those who lack knowledge on the issue settle on a side, in addition, those who have yet to decide on a side. In order for the author to capture a reader's attention, they need to establish the issue from the beginning in the title and the first few paragraphs or sentences of the paper. Using questions, statistics, quotes, or anything that may capture the reader's attention

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The Great Expectations is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1891. Charles Dickens was born into the lower class community. Wealth and social status had a hefty impact on his life; he was discriminated from the upper class. He was aggravated that he was being judged based on where he lie on the social pyramid. Therefore, he wrote a book displaying that money has a tremendous influence on an individual’s character, attitude, and intentions.