Miss Havisham Essay

Satis raise, where run Havisham lives, is realizen as gothic and strange. The house had all the windows walled up symbolize that lady friend Havisham is trapping herself from reality. Dickens also highlights her frailty as if the vivid light could struck her to dust suggesting that shes almost vampiric or supernatural, adding to the puritanic audiences fascination. Additionally, the repetition of the house being rustily barred can reflect the house as being a prison as lady friend Havisham has intent herself, Dickens could also be trying to represent her feelings of insecurity and decay.The start-off sight the reader gets of fall back Havisham is of her sitting in an arm chair, with an human elbow resting on the table this image is one of resignation and dejection as there is a sense that command Havisham has given up. She was wearing a wedding costume, symbolising that she is trying to preserve the identity as an anticipative bride. It was made of rich materials- satins , lace and silks emphasising her wealth, however these rich materials that were once snow-covered are now yellow The syntax shows that even though magazine has carryd on, bunk Havisham is locked in a moment of stasis. scores narrative instance explains her to the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see The adjective strange qualifies how odd and perverse Miss Havisham appears and the additional article or shall ever see further qualifies how her strangeness is extraordinary. Dickens, however, denies sympathy for Miss Havisham as his gothic depiction of her, causes her to become a freakish fair game of ridicule. She appears as a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that has shrunk to skin and bone.Dickens shows that there is a physical and peeed up decay that appears gothic and skeletal. She has become withered qualification her the complete actualisation of the ghastly waxwork at the fair. Dickens purposely states her as the waxwork at the fair as these freakish dis renovates were shown as a form of popular Victorian entertainment. His physical description of Miss Havisham is seen as monstrous and grotesque embodying the form of a gothic monster, therefore reservation it difficult for the reader to sympathise with her.The language, Dickens uses, is associated with death as he is implying that have sex humanises and offers life and hope to people, whereas Miss Havisham has locked her heart away, therefore making it seem as though she is deathly. Furthermore, the image of Miss Havisham livelinessing at herself in the mirror shows how she is uncertain of her identity, as she tries to fix herself as an enceinte bride. The way she views herself is different to how she seems, so new to him, so old to me so strange to him, so beaten(prenominal) to me she has locked herself in the past and is unable to move on from a sentence she was happy.Pip forces Miss Havisham to think and look at herself differently. The syntaxs new-old and strange-famil iar shows how she is moving in and out of different perspective. The use of the words as opposites shows how she has a completely misplaced view of herself. Alternatively, in chapter 49, Miss Havisham becomes humanised. Her expression is acknowledged as Pip finds her sitting in a chivvy chair which presents a sense of decay and lost worth. There was a new expression on her face, but her eyes pained, her face was have on by something more than age and her appearance overall is described as more haggard and withered than ever.She was staring at the ashy attack lost in contemplation, in this image Dickens appears to play on the myth of the phoenix as the ashy antiaircraft implies that Miss Havisham, like the phoenix rising form the ashes, wishes to be reborn in order to atone her malice. Miss Havishams freakish appearance at the start of the novel changes as Dickens humanises her to point where she cries. She dropped on her knees at my feet and held her hands out hung her head and wept showing the physical image of Miss Havishams repentance makes her seem vulnerable as it is the first time the reader sees her cry and showing her feelings, especially to a man.The crying humanises her as we see her real emotions, it also links to the myth of the phoenix as the tears are said to heal. In the process of Miss Havisham orbit alight Pip sees her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her Dickens in this image presents Miss Havisham as devilish as she runs towards Pip. However, it relates to the myth of the phoenix and shows that through the intent of her dress she is forgiven and extends the idea of being cleansed as it purges all evil.As Pip tries to distinguish the flames, he drags defeat the great cloth from the table and with it dragged down the heap of rottenness and all the ugly things that sheltered there and cover it around Miss Havisham, showing his care and consideration that has grown for Miss Havisham. Whilst Pip cradles Mi ss Havisham on the plunge, the beetles and spiders were running away over the floor whereas before the spiders were nibbling at Miss Havisham, again a sense of purging, cleanse and healing.As they lay Miss Havisham on the table with a ashen sheet loosely covering her suggests that she is finally at peace and moreover gives a sense of purity and cleansing with the pure white sheet. The vestige air of something that had been and was changed Dickens shows the reader that Miss Havisham has changed during this and has become reborn. To conclude, Dickens presents Miss Havisham as a challenge to Victorian society. He also shows that love is redemptive and necessary and without it, we are nothing. Within Miss Havishams reclamation Dickens shows the strength of her character.His intentions in creating Miss Havisham were to try and show the ghastliness that women who were rejected by the Victorian society had to go through and how bestial the society have been in marginalising them. By doing so Dickens has smartly began to deconstruct the stereotype of a spinster and questions expectations. Show preview exclusively The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found in our GCSE outstanding Expectations section.