Miss Havisham Fire Analysis

The fire at Miss Havishams home was Pips morbid fantasy. After Miss Havisham telling Pip that Estella was trained to break Pips heart. Pip had a fantasy that Miss Havisham was in her wedding dress and him coming to save her. He saves Miss Havisham but she is badly burned everywhere she wakes up in the hospital and says the the three things over and over again. "What have I done" , "when she first came, I meant to save her from misery like mine" and "take the pencil and write under her name.

Miss Havisham had been tricked by her brother Arthur and his associate, Compeyson. She thought she was going to marry Compeyson, but he deserted her on her wedding day. Miss Havisham seems to have suffered a mental collapse. Estella and Miss Havisham …show more content…
That this might have been her suicide attempt. Estella and Pip both, and punishment the fire provides Miss Havisham her punishment. And, since fire is both symbolic of purification and of punishment is goes just well with Miss Havisham house being on fire and what she deserves for putting Estella against Pip.

The fire at Miss Havisham’s house is symbolic. It represents her passion, or her force or influence. The house, like Miss Havisham, is wasting away. Pip first notices that the fires are extinguished. There is no life there in the house.

The fire at Miss Havishams home was Pips morbid fantasy. After Miss Havisham telling Pip that Estella was trained to break Pips heart. Pip had a fantasy that Miss Havisham was in her wedding dress and him coming to save her. The fire symbolizes both purification and punishment because of what she's done to Estella and what Estella has done to Pip in the long run. Miss Havisham uses Estella as a pupet to get her revenge on men who desserted her awhile ago. Estella follows Miss Havisham every command. Miss Havisham's house fire is a lesson to herself, that what she has done to Estella is not right and that she is now corrupted. Pip has also been hurt by Estella which leads to his morbid