My Analyses of Miss Havisham

'-An immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion'

' - She was dressed in rich materials,- satins and lace, and silks- all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependant from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair,but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table. Dresses, less splendid than the dress she wore, and half packed trunks, were scattered about. She had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on, - the other was on the table near her hand, - her veil was half arranged, her watch and chain were not put on, and some lace for her bosom lay with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and gloves, and some flowers, and a Prayer-Book all confusedly heaped about the looking glass.'

'-Everything in my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow.'

'- I saw the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes'

' The figure upon which it now hung loose had shrunken to skin and bone'

Above are sections I have picked out of the book the 'Great Expectations', which describes Miss Havisham. These descriptions made me imagine a middle aged women who is mistakenly taken as an elderly women, due to the fact that she's stuck in time when she was jilted at the altar as she still has her wedding dress on and only one shoe on as that was as far dressed she was when she received the letter. I also imagined that she wasn't all there either, oblivious to what is happening in society as well as the people around her. I also thought that she has some sort of nervous twitch, when meeting for pip for the first time as it is something new and not in her usual everyday routine that she has been used to for so long.

When watching the two different versions of 'Great Expectations', I found that the bbc adaptation was more similar to how I imagined, I also like the way they had kept her hair at the front a bit more tidy than it is in the back showing that she is making a little bit of an effort to keep her hair the same as it was on her wedding day. Another thing I really liked about her portrayal as well is that they should her having this sore on her hand where she kept rubbing on it making it worse every time an event happened that made her realise her past and what time era she actually is in. 

'There, there! I know nothing of days of the week; I know nothing of week of the year.'

-Miss Havisham

Upon reading scenes with Miss Havisham and Pip in, I found that she is just like an animal, you must not rush into it, but to let her come to you when she is ready, as you could say something small  that could set her off as she is already in a fragile state. Especially when reading this quote, as I interpreted that she didn't want to be reminded of what the date was, as time stood still on the worst day of her life.

Book Reference:' Great Expectations'; Charles Dickens. 1867. Chapters Seven - Chapter Eight.