Development of Miss Havisham In the novel‚ Great Expectations‚ many characters heavily influenced the plot. The author‚ Charles Dickens‚ cleverly used indirect characterization to help the reader infer how a character was going to be. By far‚ the most unusual character in the character in the story was Miss Havisham. She was also the most memorable character. It was her part in the story that led Pip into making most of the decisions that he did. Miss Havisham was indeed one of the most important
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What techniques has Carol Ann Duffy used in her poetry to make old stories and fables relevant to modern audiences? Comment on upon the use of language‚ imagery and structure. ’Mrs. Faust’ is written in the casual‚ contemporary style which suits its setting and adds fittingly to the collection of ’The Worlds Wife’. In this collection most poems explore the feminist principles or the modern state of them. This poem however‚ introduces a new issue to the collection; the materialistic nature of
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full political voice. Shakespeare and Carol Ann Duffy challenge these expectations of women being submissive and present their women characters as authoritative and devious. In ‘Macbeth’‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Lady Macbeth goes against conventions. Lady Macbeth is a desperate and controlling wife who would do anything to get her husband in to royalty and live a wealthy life. This is similar to ‘Havisham’‚ written by Carol
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In Carol Ann Duffy’s poem‚ ‘education for leisure’ and Sheenagh Pugh’s‚ ‘she was nineteen and she was bored’‚ both poets look on modern society in a negative way. Both poems look at the themes of suffering and unhappiness when cast out from society.which are two states that are inextricably linkable. Unhappiness can come as a result of suffering‚ or the need to make others suffer can come from pure unhappiness. Duffy and Pugh both make these distinctions in their work‚ and are able to engage the
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World’s Wife’ is a collection of poems written by Carol Ann Duffy in which the writer takes on the persona of a range of characters; these being real‚ fictional‚ mythical and biblical. The wives in the collection may be of long suffering‚ but they are not victims. Duffy tackles controversial issues and her women are by no means victorious‚ but she shows the women as they are; not the stereotypical feministic view but angry‚ sardonic‚ impatient women. Duffy seeks to highlight the ways in which women were
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Pip first meets Miss Havisham when he is summoned to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Satis house is set in a very upper class area but is very run down‚ the windows and doors are barred and locked‚ to keep people in as well as out. There is a dark and brooding image of the house. The reader’s first introduction to Miss Havisham occurs when Pip enters her room which is gloomy and lit only by candlelight. She is dressed in posh clothes like silks and lace‚ all in white which has now yellowed
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How does Carol Ann Duffy Present Different Feelings about Love in “Hour” and “Quick Draw” Caroline Ann Duffy had made it a common opinion in her writing that she believes love is a crawl thing. However in both “Hour” and “Quick Draw”‚ she talks about love in an appreciative way. Although in the two poems‚ it has two very different circumstances in a relationship. Similarly both poems‚ is themed around a relationship‚ however the differences being that Hour describes the situation with a vast amount
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Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy The poem “Havisham” is a dramatic piece told by the only character Miss Havisham herself‚ a character from Charles Dickens “Great Expectations”. Abandoned by her lover at the alter many years before the poem is set‚ she still wears her wedding dress‚ she’ll be wearing it for the rest of her life‚ while she plots revenge on all men. She hates what she has become‚ she hates knowing that she still and always will have her maiden name‚ in fact the poet cleverly used the characters
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Dear Jack‚ My beloved sweetheart bastard. Jilted me‚ destroyed me and crushed me into broken red pieces. I stink and remember the day we were waiting for so long‚ but you then decide to run away. Why? Why did you do this to me? Was it because of me? Or was there something wrong? The wedding gown that I wore is decaying‚ rotting and disintegrating away as days past from that heart breaking day. Don’t think it’s the only the heart that b-b-b-breaks‚ the soul also b-b-b-breaks. I waited and waited
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scene where Miss Havisham walks down the stairs for the first time‚ the filmmakers used a good contrast of light and dark. Miss Havisham has a white cloud surrounding her‚ while everything else around her is dark‚ this technique is called low-key lighting. This scene is shot from a low angle‚ making Miss Havisham look bigger‚ more important‚ and more superior. They emphasise on Miss Havisham‚ because she is the main character in that scene. Seeing a scene like Miss Havisham walking down the
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