7/6/2023 0 Comments Dickens great expectationsMiss Havisham's relationship with her half-brother was a strained one. Her father remarried and had an illegitimate son, Arthur, with the household cook. Miss Havisham's father was a wealthy brewer and her mother died shortly after she was born. She is one of the most gothic characters in the work of Dickens. However, it is indicated in the novel that her long seclusion without sunlight has aged her. In the novel, she schemes to have the young orphan, Pip, fall in love with Estella, so that Estella can " break his heart."Īlthough she has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-thirties at the start of the novel. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place". She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. Miss Havisham is a character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations (1861). Possibly Eliza Emily Donnithorne or Margaret Catherine Dick
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |