Okay, so, obviously Miss Havisham is a little or a lot crazy. But why is she so obsessed with making sure that Pip loves Estella? Is it just to break his heart, and, if so, why? Pip can't quite understand. Being Pip, he chooses to think the best, saying that he's pretty sure she didn't "reflect[ She was just trying to heal her broken heart in the only way she could.
The thing that catches our Shmoopy interest is that Miss Havisham's situation sounds a lot like Pip's: she lost her fortune and her special someone. But where Pip manages to become a better person because of it, Miss Havisham just goes nuts and ruins more people's lives. The question is, why? Is she just a bad person because she grew up spoiled and rich? Or is it a problem of gender? Spoiler: we think so. After all, Miss Havisham can't exactly go off to Cairo and become a partner in a shipping firm.
I should have cried out, if I could. Great Expectations , which creepily begins in a foggy cemetery, is a novel all about ghouls and monsters. She sees herself as a monster, too. Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature. By Olivia Rutigliano. Like this: Like Loading Now Playing:. All Stations. Stanley sees through Blanche and finds out the details of her past, destroying her relationship with his friend Mitch.
Stella left Laurel, Mississippi in her late teens and moved to New Orleans. She then met and married Stanley Kowalski, who is lower-class, but she loves and cares for him dearly. Beloved developed from a baby to monstrosity due to her murder. Throughout the novel, Sethe reveals that she had done the horror of killing her child Beloved because she did not want Beloved to live the life of slavery as she did. Beloved eventually haunts her being, from becoming a small figure that shakes the household to a real year-old woman who wrecks havoc amongst the community and terrorizes those who come across her path in wanting to be with Sethe.
This new family dynamic forces her out of her old life, they make her their servant rather than a family member. Readers immediately learn of the motives behind the characters, and recognize the horrible things that they do. Times soon grew very bad for the poor stepchild. How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection!
Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought! She is outcast because people think she is a witch. The story then moves on eight years and Farmer Lodge brings back his new wife Gertrude Lodge. Rhoda is jealous of her and sends her son who is now eight to go and look at her. A few weeks later Rhoda has a vision in her sleep and curses Gertrude.
She has the notion that she cannot be happy unless everything appears as perfect. And Jane, feeling the weight of her parents, wants to break off from her prison, her home life. She like most teens views her parents as weird and wants out of that life. In The Virgin Suicides the characters that are the most imprisoned are the five Lisbon sisters.
After the youngest sister plunged to her death during the first party they were allowed to have, and Lux came home late after the homecoming dance, their parents literally turned their home into a prison. Molly's Death in Silas Marner At the moment, Silas is like a snail in a shell, waiting to come out and excel. Godfrey has a big surprise waiting for him on New Years Eve. His previous wife, Molly, is planning on showing up and avenge him for leaving him.
She has not only come alone, but with her child. Molly is addicted to opium and needs another shot to energise her walk towards the Squire's house in the deep snow. Open Document.
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