How Is Biddy Alike

The character Biddy from the novel, Mr. Wopsle’s second cousin, was omitted from the movie completely. It is important to note Biddy’s omission because she in a way was a foil for Pip’s sister because she was caring, kind, happy, and content despite the circumstances surrounding her. In the novel, Biddy offers a sounding board of common sense to Pip as he’s growing up. She also steps in to help run the household for Joe and Pip when Mrs. Joe is injured. She quickly learns how to discern what Mrs. Joe is trying to communicate after the injury has left Mrs. Joe bed ridden and incapable of speech. Biddy is the one who figures out who Mrs. Joe’s attacker was. Biddy eventually becomes Joe’s wife. Her character is quite the opposite of Estella’s; …show more content…
In both the novel and movie, the Satis House is symbolic of Miss Havisham herself. Both were once beautiful, but after being unappreciated, unloved, and worn by time they show their own story visibly. The perception is that everything including Miss Havisham is stuck in the past. The clocks were all stopped at twenty minutes till nine, but the movie never makes mention of the significance of the time. The frozen clocks that the novel portrays allow the audience to connect puzzles pieces by knowing when Miss Havisham’s issues began to occur. The day when she was to be married her husband-to-be left a note and her broken heart behind. This was a key element that should have been included in the movie because without the depiction of the paused clock time we only get a glimpse of how deeply Miss Havisham is affected by Compeyson’s betrayal. Drawing from a paraphrased quote from an old play from, 1697 called The Mourning Bride, “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” Miss Havisham personifies this vindictiveness and vengefulness (Wikipedia, 2018). She is manipulative, obsessive, wicked, eccentric, creepy, and disturbing. She is out for blood from all men and trains Estella in these twisted and jaded ways of deceit, revenge, and distrust. The movie depicts a fitting scene in which Estella strikes out at Miss Havisham and tells Miss Havisham not to complain when she herself is cut by …show more content…
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