One moment. A single event can change a person’s life forever, but it does not have to define them. Everyone has experienced suffering or pain at some point in their life, but the difference is how they coped with the agony that they felt. Great Expectations is a book that revolves around the hopes, struggles and, disappointments of others. A surplus of the characters are plagued with tremendous loss and face horrible and unimaginable tragedies. One character in particular, Miss Havisham, is confronted by catastrophe and misery multiple times, but allows these moments define her as a person. Miss Havisham is broken, never finding the strength to recover, and she forces herself to endure a life of sadness after that fateful day.
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Miss Havisham has built a perfect room with“ no glimpse of daylight was to be seen in it” ( Dickens 60 ). She cut herself out of the world because of an unbearable pain she thinks will never leave. Her idea of a good way to deal with her pain it to lose all hope in the world around her. At a first glimpse of Miss Havisham’s room, Pip states that, “ I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had lost its luster, and was faded to yellow” (Dickens 60). She is so struck by the suddenness of the pain that she never feels able to remove the garments she had put on. She wants to hold on to some false hope that one day everyone will see her in her beautiful dress, and realize what they had forced upon her. Miss Havisham never recovers from her fake and manipulative ex-fiance, causing her to live in one moment forever; “her watch had been stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine” ( Dickens 61). That one moment of pain stays with her forever, torturing her and making her suffer tremendously. She lets this moment define her as someone who will forever feel that pain. She may not realize it until it is too late, but by shutting herself out from the world, she denies herself the opportunity to feel love
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Miss Havisham has built a perfect room with“ no glimpse of daylight was to be seen in it” ( Dickens 60 ). She cut herself out of the world because of an unbearable pain she thinks will never leave. Her idea of a good way to deal with her pain it to lose all hope in the world around her. At a first glimpse of Miss Havisham’s room, Pip states that, “ I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had lost its luster, and was faded to yellow” (Dickens 60). She is so struck by the suddenness of the pain that she never feels able to remove the garments she had put on. She wants to hold on to some false hope that one day everyone will see her in her beautiful dress, and realize what they had forced upon her. Miss Havisham never recovers from her fake and manipulative ex-fiance, causing her to live in one moment forever; “her watch had been stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine” ( Dickens 61). That one moment of pain stays with her forever, torturing her and making her suffer tremendously. She lets this moment define her as someone who will forever feel that pain. She may not realize it until it is too late, but by shutting herself out from the world, she denies herself the opportunity to feel love