Miss Havisham is an amazing character in the novel 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickinson. She is the Lady of the Satis house who was once blinded in love with a man called Compeyson, but unfortunately he was only in love with Miss Havisham's wealth that she inherited from her father. Her small family did warn her about Compeyson but she was too blinded by love and he had left her at the alter which caused her heartbroken and embarrassed so she locked herself away from the word never to face daylight or see the outside world ever again. She remained in her wedding dress and left the wedding buffet as it was. Her skin pale like a ghost from never being in daylight her hair in a birds nest since she never re-did her hair after the traumatic event she went through, the front of her hairs where curled but fallen down and loosened and her skin all flaky and itchy from mot bathing.
She wanted her revenge on men since then and ended up adopting a young girl called Estella who she brought up to be emotionless, manipulative and heart breaker. She had taught young Estella to not et her emotions get in the way and to never love a man but to break their hearts.
After she had realized that she had created a monster in Estella and Estella could never love her or express her love for Miss Havisham. And then realized that she had broken Estella and Pip's heart she asked for Pip's forgiveness and then she went to the wedding buffet room holding her roses and wearing her veil she ended up killing herself by setting herself on fire.
Miss Havisham's character is very Gothic horror she has that romantic fantasy past but now filled with pain and heart ache, her not changing her clothes or cleaning the house creates a spookiness about her, her pale white skin the pain in her eyes almost as she was alive but not alive a part of her died when she was left at the alter and she was just a living corpse that had no alive feature about her.
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