Miss Havisham

great deal about each social class based upon how members of the different classes interact with food around him. Pip’s father figure, Joe, is able to constantly love him for who he is, while Mr. Pumblechook changes his appreciation for Pip, and Miss Havisham constantly loves him for who he is not. Pip’s unconditional love that he shares with his father figure, Joe, can be examined carefully when the two are around any food. From the very beginning of the novel, Pip can be seen sharing a variety…

also uses setting with Miss Havisham’s house. It is always dark unless illuminated with artificial lighting. This symbolizes how Miss Havisham is cut off from the rest of the world mentally and how her state of mind is reflected by her external surroundings. In chapter 8, Pip also meets Estella, who is described as a star. She is metaphorically Pip’s guiding star.…

discover Pip’s frustration with the fact that he is not on the same social position as Estella or Miss Havisham. And by being rejected constantly by Estella, he is drawn more powerfully into this play that leaves significant scars on his heart and personality. Estella is one of the most complex characters in the novel and she is used to criticize the class system in which she was raised. Miss Havisham teaches her how to be manipulative, cold and cynical with the men around her, transforming her…

the person in pursuit of those ambitions. Dickens displays through the character Herbert that ambition is a positive trait when not taken too far. He then shows what happens to those that obsess about their ambitions using the characters Pip and Miss Havisham. In the novel, Pip, the protagonist is an example of how ambition can be taken too far and how it can lead to their downfall. In the story pips ambition is to become a gentleman and when the heart of a girl named is Estella. He pursues…

spinstress Miss Havisham. “...which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Some windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred.”(Dickens 42). As shown here, the Satis House, is not a luxurious manor, like most would expect it to be. The wealthy have no reason to be living in a house with bars on it, a type of prison. Only an unhappy person would live in such a place. This is significant because this shows that though Miss…

Pip’s intentions when he grew up were to work with Joe in the forge. Unfortunately, when Miss Havisham began to meet with him, he started to create false hopes of his future. When Pip was first going to meet her, he had no idea why he was going. Pip said, “Why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham's, and what on earth I was expected to play at,” (53;ch. 8). In this quote, Pip was curious about Miss Havisham’s intentions for him. Finally when Pip arrived to her house, he was upset and…

'I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me'" (Dickens 304). This quote shows that Miss Havisham…

Pip learns that his choices affect not only himself but others around him through interacting with Estella. By interacting with Estella and hearing the nasty comments she makes about his upbringing, Pip attempts to change himself from an ordinary boy to an uncommon scholar. Pip had at first felt ashamed of himself when Estella had made fun of him for calling the knaves, Jacks while playing a card game, and also when she told him that he has coarse hands and thick boots(p.g.55). Pip mentioned…

Dickens shapes both their stories intricately. Miss Havisham eternally embodies her husband’s betrayal on their wedding day, “[d]ressing in rich materials - satins, and lace, and silks - all of white. Her shoes [a]re white. And she [h]as a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair” (Dickens 53). Miss Havisham consumes herself by preserving every aspect of the wedding preparations. In addition to her yellowing…

greatest determinants of actions and intentions. Throughout the novel, characters are influenced by the actions and intentions of other characters. In particular, both Miss. Havisham and Pip allow other people to influence their action and intention in excessive ways, leading to great suffering and disappointment. Notably, Miss Havisham’s complete character is afflicted by the man she thought loved her, but rather betrayed her. Therefore, his influence upon her made her cold at heart and act…