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Miss Havisham's 'Revenge In Great Expectations'
Have you ever done something just to hurt or to mess with someone else who has wronged you at one time? In reading Great Expectations we learn that revenge is what drives people on in this book. For people like Miss Havisham her revenge on men by raising Estella to spite them. We also see in able how he wants to have Compeyson caught and locked away for making him get more jail time.

Miss Havisham fell in love with a man from you lower class, then she was but on the day of their wedding her soon to be husband left at the alter. After that day she was extremely depressed and destroyed her on the inside. Miss Havisham decided to Adopt Estella to try and fill that hole in her heart. Miss Havisham raised Estella to talk harshly to all men and
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