How does Dickens present the character of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations?
… also used the journal to serialize novels that were concerned with social issues. In Great expectations Dickens themes unmarried women and property, he wrote the novel in the mid-nineteenth century a period when women’s property rights were being intensely debated in England. His depiction of propertied women in the novel reflects Victorian England’s beliefs about women’s inability to responsibly own and manage their own property. Miss Havisham is in fact presented as the embodiment of women’s failure to properly manage wealth and property. Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is a wealthy, eccentric old woman living in Satis House near Pip’s village. She is manic and seems insane, walking around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty to nine. As a young woman, Miss Havisham was left by her fianc minutes before her wedding, and now …
