Awe, Miss Havisham. What a perfect example of despair and revenge gone wrong. In chapter 8, Pip encounters this character for the first time. He finds her sitting at her dressing table in her faded, yellow wedding gown surrounded by half-packed trunks. Pip notices that her watch and the clock have both been stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
What struck you the most about the description of Miss Havisham, her room, and Satis House?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I think Miss Havisham is a striking image of hopelessness. That she has left everything exactly the way it was at that moment is so sad.
ReplyDeleteGreat Expectations is a book about reactions and consequences. Miss Havisham is the most pitiful of them all letting what one man did determine the way she would spend the rest of her life: suspended in that moment of greatest heartache. What a miserable waste of life and knowledge!
Thank you for your comment. It is so difficult to watch as Miss Havisham not only destroys her own life, but makes her misery everyone's company.
ReplyDelete