English Prose Study Essay :: English Literature

English Prose Study Essay turn a loss Havisham is first introduced to the subscriber when Mr Pumblechook(Pips Uncle) announces that cast off Havisham Requests Pips presence toplay at her admit.Miss Havisham fits into the main plat be practice she trains Estella to break their hearts. When Pip sees Estella for the fist time, heinstantly falls in love with her. Miss Havisham sees this and sheencourages Pip to do so. Miss Havisham was also, in Pips eyes, thecause of his Great expectations Miss Havisham may also have beenplaced in the novel by Dickens, To explore how the effects of badexperiences on people. In this case it would be Miss Havisham beingjilted on her wedding ceremony dayIn the first description of Satis house you get the effigy of adilapidated house that has been abandoned even though there is someonethere still living there. When pip goes to miss Havishams house sheasks him to touch her heart. This according to her is Broken. WhenMiss Havisham says I sometimes have vile fancies this shows thatMiss Havisham is mentally disturbed in the head. Satis house is an olddecaying house, which was turn this way by Miss Havishams neglect.When Pip returns to miss Havishams she takes him into her weddingbreakfast room. There is a rotting cake in the middle of the table.This sums up Miss Havishams life perfectly. Forgotten and Mouldy.Another thing that is made come forth to be strange is that al the clockshave been stopped at twenty to nine. This makes it sound like her lifehas been frozen in time, as she also wore one shoe, half her veil wasarranged and she still wore a decaying wedding dress. This makes thereaders believe that she has frozen time at that exact point.Miss Havisham plays an important part in the Novel as she leads pipinto believe that she was his benefactor because he believed thatshe was rearing him for Estella when in fact it was the convict(Magwitch). Miss Havishams character at the beginning of the novel ismade out to be cruel and hea rtless, however later on in the novel sheturns oer a new leaf and begs for Pips forgiveness fair(a) before sheis burnt to death.Charles Dickens explores the nucleotide of sin and forgiveness in thenovel. Throughout the novel some of the people who have sinned triedto pay off themselves the other people who have sinned havent. Inaddition, Dickens explores the theme of what is a gentle man. CompysonWho jilted Miss Havisham and manipulated Magwitch into doing his dirty