Quote Analysis of Miss Havisham

'the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress'
1. She has allowed herself to die and fade away
'had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes'
1. Like a skull
2. Lifeless
'waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved'
1. She died emotionally. This shows by her decayed appearance on the outside
2. Horror features
'You can break his heart.'
1. Miss H to Estella
2. She molded Estella into a weapon for revenge against men. A heartbreaker
3. She created a monster
''withered bridal dress on the collapsed form could have looked so like grave-clothes, or the long veil so like a shroud'
1. Constantly associated with death
2. 'corpse-like'
3. Suggests that she is fragile
  1. 'natural light of day would have struck her to dust.'
    1. She is unnatural. No longer belongs in the world
'she had the appearance of having drooped, body and soul, within and without, under the weight of a crushing blow.'
1. The pain of having her heart broken destroyed her
2. Her soul died, then her body has been decaying and dying over the years
'she looked like the Witch of the place.'
1. Mysterious
2. A childish fear is to be afraid of witches and mystical beings
3. Medieval fear. She is from a different time/era
'devouring the beautiful creature she had reared.'
1. Innappropriate behaviour
2. As if she is sucking the life out of Estella
'with the intensity of a mind mortally hurt and diseased'
1. She is broken
2. She has gone mad with her broken heart, age, solitude and eagerness for revenge
'I saw in this, the distinct shadow of the darkened and unhealthy house in which her life was hidden from the sun.'
1. She is casting the same shadow over Estella's life
2. Her and Satis House have rotted away together
'going along it in a ghostly manner, making a low cry.'
1. Her soul died so she is a spirit/ghost
2. She is haunting the house
3. 'spectral figure'
'put her hand on her heart'
1. Pip's love confession rekindles her passion
2. As if her heart begins to beat again
'resolved into a ghastly stare of pity and remorse'
1. She is regaining her emotions
2. Pip's passion revives her
3. Pip's genuine love for Estella generated compassion and generosity in Miss H
'I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her'
1. Fire cleanses
2. She did not know passion (until the end when she begins to regain it), yet she dies in a fiery, passionate way (irony)
3. She had already died emotionally, so now she must die physically
''they had covered her to the throat with white cotton-wool'
1. Rebirth

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