Why Is Miss Havisham Important

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

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 plays a big part in Pip's life. Dickens portrays her as a women who has been jilted on her wedding day. This event has ruined her life. Miss Havisham has stopped all clocks and sits in her yellowing wedding dress. Miss havisham has stopped all clocks on the moment she has found out that her lover has jilted her. Dickens describes her in a way whick makes me imagine the castle of the white witch in Narnia, with its frozen statues in the courtyard.

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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.”

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.

The fire that has occurred at Miss Havisham's home is symbolic and also has great purpose in the novel Great Expectations. Dickens includes this incident in the novel for many reasons. The reasons are that it shows the symbol of small evils, the fire represents desire and destruction, and the fire is a big turning point in the novel. To begin with, the fire that occurs in Miss Havisham's home represents and symbolizes small evils in the novel Great Expectations.

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

Charles Dickens Great Expectations had the incident of fire at Miss Havisham’s house in his novel to symbolize her home life force, to symbolize Miss Havisham's vindictive behavior, to symbolize the guilt and remorse..As like her the house was wasting away, there was a cold and damp feeling one felt when inside. Dickens wanted to give the house life and warmth he used the fire to symbolize this..Miss Havisham wanted someone to keep her company, she adopted an orphan girl who she named Estella. Her intentions were to save her from misery like she experienced, that changed, she turned her against men, ultimately fire caused her to pay the price. Since fire is a force of harm Dickens wanted the readers to know all of Miss Havisham’s cruel, and bitter vindictive actions did not go unpunished.

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.

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.

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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