Analysing Miss Havishams Character

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Miss Havisham I found to be one of the most eccentric characters in Great Expectations. However she is a wealthy dowager and lives in a a mansion which is decomposing after her fiancée Compeyson left her at the altar on her wedding day. This was very tragic for Miss Havisham so she stopped all the clocks in Satis House at twenty minutes to nine which was the time when she first realised Compeyson had gone. She also only wears one shoe as when she came to realise that Compeyson had betrayed her she was only wearing one shoe at that time. 

After Miss Havisham lost her fortune she no longer liked any male and decided to get revenge on them. To do this she adopted a little girl named Estella and raised her to purposely break hearts, one of them being a young boy named Pip. Miss Havisham made Estella to be a very cold hearted young girl as Miss Havisham is very single-minded and believed this was the only way to heal her broken heart, only thinking of herself and was unable to see the hurt and upset she was causing Estella and Pip. However Miss Havisham eventually can see the heart break in which she has caused young Pip to have and realises it is just the same as she felt and instead of getting revenge she notices that she notices that she has only caused more pain and begs Pip for his forgiveness.

Source Information: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/greatex/canalysis.html