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Miss Havisham (Revengeful (Witch- like incantations ("Murmuring…
Miss Havisham
Revengeful
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Witch- like incantations
"Murmuring something in her ear.. break their hearts , my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy
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Sadistic/Merciless
"Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and show them no mercy."
Plays a game with Pip
When Pip visits Satis House in Chapter 15 Pip describes how there was such a "malignant enjoyment in the utterance of the last words" being "Do you feel that you lost her?" and she broke into "disagreeable laughter.
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Wealthy/Upper Class
she lived in a "dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion."
Miss H secluded, sequestered and solitary mansion is a metaphor demonstrating the barrier between classes and illustrates how social classes were segregated as the upper class were in their 'Ivory Towers
ignorant of the working class struggles of everyday life
When Pip returns to Satis House in C15 to tell Miss H he is doing well in his apprenticeship, with the hidden intention of catching glimpse of Estella she states Estella is "abroad...educating for a lady far out of reach...Do you feel like you've lost her."
Miss H is creating the perfect lady, who is unreachable and unattainable for Pip due to social status. A part of Pip's short fallings for Estella is his social class as he will never meet up to Estella's level.
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Gothic/Death-like
Miss H is so bitter and rancorous that she is presented with gothic and corpse-like imagery which reflect her deep scarred emotions and hurt from being abandoned and scammed. Her cold and bitter emotions also highlights Dicken's choices for inhumane and sinister desriptions
"she sat, corpse like as we played cards."
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