I have been studying the novel of Great Expectations, written by Charles of Dickens. While making my research I have found that there is quite a connection between character and place. In this essay I will be writing about certain characters and places and how they are connected with places in way of events and of language.
Pip is the main character and narrator in this novel. He is a man that succeeds fortune, as he tried to better himself because he was ashamed of he's background from where he came from. When fortune heads his way pips realises that money isn't everything, and it cannot buy him what he wants the most, Estella's love.
Miss Havesham is a elderly woman with a severely broken heart. She lives her life at twenty minuets to nine and as though daylight does not exist. Her only emotions that's exists in her empty heart is one of her adopted daughter (Estella) who she bring sup to break men's hearts. Pip becomes one of her victims and a boy for Estella to practice on.
I connect Miss Havesham to her house, Satis house as it has a lot of things in common with her. Satis means "enough" and that "whoever had this house could want nothing else". But the thought of this house being "enough", by the appearance of it, shows what kind of person Miss Havesham was. Satis house was "of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred." This quote from the book could also be used to describe Miss Havesham. The old brick could describe how elderly she was and the bars could describe how she kept herself to herself. The windows that were bricked up could also show how she wanted to keep the world out and how she blocked people out after her failed marriage. Satis
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