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    For my transformation I choose the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens and transformed it into a poem that targets the attitude and pain of the main character Miss Havisham. One of my main attempts was to focus on her loneliness and bitter personality. I wanted to grasp these points in particular to show the links between her attitude and hatred towards men and the world around her. She has a vengeful side which is portrayed in her violent language ‘stab’ and ‘death’. Her attitude towards

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    Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ’Havisham’ is a dramatic monologue written from the eyes of the infamous character Miss Havisham who is extracted from Dickens’s ’Great Expectations’. Miss Havisham is a very disturbing character for a number of different reasons conceived by the pain and hurt she has endured through out her life after being jilted at the altar many years before the poem is set. Through out Havisham we learn that there is more underlying problems to Havisham than what was once acknowledged

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    Miss Havisham is first introduced to the reader when Mr Pumblechook (Pips Uncle) announces that Miss Havisham Requests Pips presence to play at her house. Miss Havisham fits into the main plot because she trains Estella to “ break their hearts.” When Pip sees Estella for the fist time‚ he instantly falls in love with her. Miss Havisham sees this and she encourages Pip to do so. Miss Havisham was also‚ in Pips eyes‚ the cause of his ‘Great expectations’ Miss Havisham may also have been

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    Miss Havisham Miss Havisham appearance is very ghostly and skeleton like but in another way very elegant with the rich materials and fine fabrics she wears but she also has certain scruffiness to her with the messy bridal flowers in her hair and one shoe on a one shoe off kind of thing. The old woman looked pretty much skin and bone and that’s why in the extract pip describes her as a ‘skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress’. At first in the extract pip describes her in a very elegant and wealthy

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    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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    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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    meeting with Miss Havisham‚ nearly everyone in Pip’s life stand to gain in some way or another from the unused wealth that accompanies‚ so it’s only natural for pip to feel persuaded to become a sycophant. Even members of Pip’s family‚ who do not have much to gain from Miss

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    In her morbid poem ’Havisham’‚ Carol Ann Duffy redefines one of Charles Dickens’ most memorable characters‚ Miss Havisham. Jilted at the alter by her one true love‚ Dickens portrayed Havisham as an old spinster‚ her life wasted away trying to gain revenge on all men. Through her dramatic monologue ’Havisham’‚ Duffy gives the disturbed old woman a voice to express her feelings about her wasted life. One of the themes that I found fascinating in this poem was the idea that a moment of betrayal can

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    In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy creates an interesting character. Write about the way the character is created‚ and compare this with the way other characters are created in three other poems. You should compare it with one poem by Simon Armitage and two poems from the pre-1912 poetry bank. In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy explores the character of Mrs Havisham and develops her by using vivid imagery and metaphors. She starts the poem with ‘Beloved sweetheart bastard’ which is an oxymoron‚ used to display

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    Estella Havisham was raised as a lady‚ but she is still treated as a possession by the men in her life and by her own adopted mother. Though Pip’s intentions are largely innocent‚ he has always seen her as the ideal‚ an unattainable object that is the epitome of

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