“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” -William Shakespeare. We will travel throughout the novel and visit different scenes and see how a character evolves from the beginning all the way till the end. In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Dickens explores the way Miss Havisham will evolve throughout the story seeking revenge, and finding out that revenge is never the answer.
We start with the scene at Miss Havisham’s house, Satis house to be precise and Pip has just arrived to meet Miss Havisham as she requested. ‘Play, play, play’(61)! Mrs. Havisham aggressively demanded Pip to play, even though he did not feel like …show more content…
“The spectral figure of Miss Havisham, her hand still covering her heart, seemed all resolved into a ghastly stare of pity and remorse” (387). Miss Havisham has a sudden change of heart when she hears Pip profess his love for Estella. She feels regret in her stomach because even after all the stuff she has put Pip through, he still has some feelings for Estella and that makes Miss Havisham think that all men are not the same, and sadly feels devastated for the boy old Pip. “What have I done!… when she first came, I meant to save her from misery like mine” (428). Miss Havisham is now seeing what she has done to the people she has manipulated and used. She is just now seeing the sunshine on a cloudy day after Pip launches at her saving her from burning in flames. She has a meltdown and has nothing but pure regret in her …show more content…
Dicken’s uses a lot of dialogue to show the conversation between two or more people. Dickens also uses many repetition and parallelism.
Some of the characters in Great Expectations, don 't really show much feelings as other characters in the novel. The characters that don 't show much colors, tend to be the cold-hearted or psycho ones. This may connect them all together because we can infer that they have had a tough childhood, or a rough past. The dialogue in this novel happens to be very effective because it shows wear main characters talk, and is not just a big blob of scripts.
In conclusion, the majority of the time, revenge is not the answer to all problems. As shown, the character Miss Havisham evolves as the novel takes place and ends up regretting most of the stuff that she did. First, she is very demanding and full of authority. Second, you see how she targets males because of some issue that affected her and it ended up scaring her into thinking that all men were the same. Last, but not least, she has a change of heart and sees the sunshine on the cloudy day. She sees that all this revenge is not worth it because honestly she is not happy at all, and she dies regretting so much stuff she wished she 'd never done. “While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.” -Douglas
We start with the scene at Miss Havisham’s house, Satis house to be precise and Pip has just arrived to meet Miss Havisham as she requested. ‘Play, play, play’(61)! Mrs. Havisham aggressively demanded Pip to play, even though he did not feel like …show more content…
“The spectral figure of Miss Havisham, her hand still covering her heart, seemed all resolved into a ghastly stare of pity and remorse” (387). Miss Havisham has a sudden change of heart when she hears Pip profess his love for Estella. She feels regret in her stomach because even after all the stuff she has put Pip through, he still has some feelings for Estella and that makes Miss Havisham think that all men are not the same, and sadly feels devastated for the boy old Pip. “What have I done!… when she first came, I meant to save her from misery like mine” (428). Miss Havisham is now seeing what she has done to the people she has manipulated and used. She is just now seeing the sunshine on a cloudy day after Pip launches at her saving her from burning in flames. She has a meltdown and has nothing but pure regret in her …show more content…
Dicken’s uses a lot of dialogue to show the conversation between two or more people. Dickens also uses many repetition and parallelism.
Some of the characters in Great Expectations, don 't really show much feelings as other characters in the novel. The characters that don 't show much colors, tend to be the cold-hearted or psycho ones. This may connect them all together because we can infer that they have had a tough childhood, or a rough past. The dialogue in this novel happens to be very effective because it shows wear main characters talk, and is not just a big blob of scripts.
In conclusion, the majority of the time, revenge is not the answer to all problems. As shown, the character Miss Havisham evolves as the novel takes place and ends up regretting most of the stuff that she did. First, she is very demanding and full of authority. Second, you see how she targets males because of some issue that affected her and it ended up scaring her into thinking that all men were the same. Last, but not least, she has a change of heart and sees the sunshine on the cloudy day. She sees that all this revenge is not worth it because honestly she is not happy at all, and she dies regretting so much stuff she wished she 'd never done. “While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.” -Douglas