Who does miss havisham represent in charles dicken life?
great book by the way. Miss Havisham doesn’t represent anyone in particular. But dickens was very concerned with poverty and the effect this had on people, especially those in workhouses in Victorian Britain, of which he experienced along with debt and debtor’s prisons such as Marshalsea, where his own father stayed, and where Little Dorrit was born, the main character of another of his successful novels. Oliver Twist lived in workhouse. Miss H is extravagantly rich but she secludes herself in her Satis House (Enough House), rotting, dying, fading. Her surroundings represent her character and how bitter, twisted she was to manipulate a young girl and poor boy (Pip and Stella) in her vindictive way because of being jilted at the altar when she was younger. For her, time stopped. But his shows how the immensely rich, including Pip as his life progresses and Stella, cannot guarantee happiness and satisfaction as both lead a life where they deceive themselves and cannot go back to amend fo
