(Miss)understood

she expresses the hatred of young love when Estella starts insulting Pip as they play, and Miss Havisham lets Estella go on but as for Pip not to talk back but tell what he thinks about her. When he says Estella is pretty she almost expresses a mocking expression as though love can never happen to them or anyone in her house. “Saving for the one weird smile at first, I should have felt almost sure that Miss Havisham’s face could not smile.”

Symbolic Significance of Animals in ‘Miss Julie’ by August Strindberg “The petty man conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.” - Xun Zi Animals are the most basic form of human nature; they act without the external pressures of a society, unlike humans. All animals have a variety of both positive and negative connotations, such as the powerful yet wild eagle, and it is in a humans’ primitive nature to behave as they do. “Miss Julie” by August Strindberg tells the

When he saw the criminal gobbled it up, his emotion was complicated, which was an examination of Pip’s ability to stand the fear and experience others’ pain. And he can understand the pain of Miss Havisham who was abandoned on the wedding banquet and bore the torture of her and her adopted daughter. He understood his friends and shared their happiness and sadness together. From the above, his character can be concluded as the embodiment of humbleness, kindness, and generosity. That is, at the beginning

allows people to choose a form of misery. Flawlessly, Dickens creates a novel that utterly captures this theme. Great Expectations expresses the theme “money does not bring happiness”; Dickens perfectly demonstrates this idea through the eccentric Miss Havisham and the self-centered Mr. Jaggers.

vicarious experience. He worries his account of the Havisham "would not be understood," nor would his account of Miss Havisham herself. Moreover, the word coarse has made such an impression of him from Estella, which Pip worries whether his station allows him to drag Miss Havisham "as she really was…before the contemplation of Mrs. Joe Gargery." Pip, then is acutely aware of how his and Mrs. Joe's lower class standing to Miss Havisham's limits the observations he may make, whereas between Rochester

The Fire at Miss Havisham’s house. Dickens Included this in his Novel to make it Popular and create a Suspense. The Symbolic Purpose that the Novel Serves is that Dickens wanted the Reader to be in Suspense to find out the Reason of Miss Havisham’s house getting on fire. Also, another Symbolic Purpose that the Story serves is that Miss Havisham didn’t like men at first but later on in the Novel as the time passed she started to understand that all Men aren’t the same. Maybe she felt bad of what she

with his sister and her husband who is a blacksmith, one day he is requested to play at Miss Havisham’s Manor and he falls in love with her daughter, Estella, who gives him the aspiration to become a gentleman to win her love. He then receives his great

has come to be known as a timeless and remarkably moving work of literature. It is considered to be one of Dickens’ most recognizable works, and is celebrated for its meaningful, universally-believed themes. In order for this novel to be properly understood, a thoughtful analysis of its major themes must be given. Socio-Economic Status and Hierarchy The ones who seem to be most affected by society’s beliefs about class and social order are Pip, his family, and his friends, who would definitely fall

form of Miss Havisham’s request that he visits Satis house. He describes the process of his dressing up, “When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.” (45). Therefore, the requirement to change (outwardly) in order to appear attractive is unpleasant and restrictive. He is not to appear as he is, but as an amended version of himself, refashioned to Miss Havisham’s

Pip’s primary goal in Great Expectations is to win the heart over of the wealthy and beautiful Estella, and to acquire something else to achieve this goal: wealth. Being of a lower class and the playmate of Miss Havisham, as far as Estella is concerned, Pip is nothing to her in the beginning. Not to say this isn’t the case of Pip’s feelings for Estella, as in the very beginning of their interaction everything he feels is purely lust: lust for the stunning Estella, hankering for the wealth he wishes