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Great Expectations - An insight of Miss Havisham and an exloration of the key topics of the novel.
Title: Great Expectations - An insight of Miss Havisham and an exloration of the key topics of the novel.
Category: Literature / World Literature
Details: Words: 1955 | Pages: 8.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Great Expectations - An insight of Miss Havisham and an exloration of the key topics of the novel.
Miss Havisham is the wealthy, eccentric old woman who lives in a manor called Satis House near Pip's village. She is manic and often seems insane, flitting around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty minutes to nine. As a young woman, Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancé minutes before her wedding, and now she has a vendetta against …showed first 75 words of 1955 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1955 total…connection to intelligence or moral worth. Drummle is a lout who has inherited immense wealth, while Pip's friend and brother-in-law Joe is a good man who works hard for the little he earns. Drummle's negative example helps Pip to see the inner worth of characters such as Magwitch and Joe, and eventually to discard his immature fantasies about wealth and class in favor of a new understanding that is both more compassionate and more realistic.
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