If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces—and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper—love her, love her, love her! As Miss Havisham urges Pip to love Estella , she says nothing about her loving him in return. This, of course, is not an option. The intensity with which she speaks and the repetition she uses highlights Miss Havisham's mania.
Miss Havisham has brought Estella up to be the instrument of her revenge. She looks on her as a daughter even though she is not. She hung upon Estella's beauty, hung upon her words, hung upon her gestures, and sat mumbling her own trembling fingers while she looked at her, as though she were devouring the beautiful creature she had reared. It also foreshadows how her obsession will lead to her death. Miss Havisham is wealthy, having inherited money and the house from her parents.
While she could put this to good use, her home is in ruins and some of her poorer relations struggle to make ends meet. There are five and twenty guineas in this bag.
Give it to your master, Pip. Miss Havisham here uses her money for what she believes is a good cause — paying for Pip to become Joe's apprentice. She seems totally unaware that this is the last thing the boy wants at this stage in his life.
If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces—and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper—love her, love her, love her! Okay, so, obviously Miss Havisham is a little or a lot crazy.
But why is she so obsessed with making sure that Pip loves Estella? Is it just to break his heart, and, if so, why? Pip can't quite understand. Being Pip, he chooses to think the best, saying that he's pretty sure she didn't "reflect[ She was just trying to heal her broken heart in the only way she could. The thing that catches our Shmoopy interest is that Miss Havisham's situation sounds a lot like Pip's: she lost her fortune and her special someone. But where Pip manages to become a better person because of it, Miss Havisham just goes nuts and ruins more people's lives.
The question is, why? Is she just a bad person because she grew up spoiled and rich? Or is it a problem of gender? However when Pip realises what he is really seeing, the reader is informed of what seems to be the real of Miss Havisham. The adjectives used by Pip to describe objects are almost opposite in the second description, first the jewels were sparkly and then there was no brightness. I think this description of the dress also parallels to a description of Miss Havisham when she was young and beautiful, and how her beauty faded during the years.
I think that the fact that everything is turning yellow could represent how Miss Havisam is trying to fight past and how slowly she is loosing the battle. I think that Dickens decided to use Pip naivety, and change of opinion, to show haw quickly things can change, to represent how quickly things changed for Miss Havisham. How sudden and unexpected that fatal moment was to her. Just how unexpected the second description by Pip was for the reader.
The gesture of stopping the clocks at that same time, to me symbolises that her life stopped at that exact time. I think all these small gestures that could seem insane at first, symbolise hope. When Miss Havisham invites Pip to come closer, Pip seems very shy and insecure.
Miss Havisham comes across as some sort of disturbed drama queen. I think Miss Havisham put on this so called act to degrade Pip and make him feel uncomfortable, because she received personal pleasure from hurting people, just like when she had been hurt. At this point Miss Havishams personality begins to shine through. Miss Havisham is determined to make Pip fall in love with Estella, so that Estella could break his heart, just like her own was broken.
She keeps asking Pip what he thinks of Estella until she receives the response she wanted to here. I interpreted this hidden smile as a sign of victory, I think she feels she has achieved what she wanted and made Pip fall in love with Estella. However almost immediately what seemed a smile dropped to a brooding expression. I think Dickens included this change of expression to show that however heartless Miss Havisham has seemed so far, doing this to Pip is making her comeback to reality and think back to her feelings and how hurt, sad and depressed she felt.
Near the end of the novel when Miss Havisham is near her death day, we see a radical change in her personality.
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