Miss Havisham character analysis

Character Analysis

Miss Havisham has what people dream of, money. A lot of money. But of course not even a lot of money can fix a broken heart after she was betrayed, abandoned and dumped by her fiancé on her wedding day, hence why she becomes extremely bitter and hateful towards men which some can argue is only to protect herself from the way she was hurt by the one she loved. Miss Havisham sees a chance to cure her hurt and loneliness which is Estella, but not even a sweet innocent girl who puts her faith into Miss Havisham can change her resentment and instead she spends her life looking after Estella and making sure she hates men as much as herself, if not more. 

Of course in her eyes she was only protecting Estella, as Miss Havisham experienced so much betrayal in her life which unfortunately backfires on herself as it ends up hurting not only Estella and the boy she falls in love with, Pip, but also herself, hence why she asks for forgiveness in the end having realised that the entire male sex isn't all bad. 

Miss Havisham becomes obsessed with finding love, true love for Estella so since young age she always asks Pip to play with Estella, whilst at the same time making sure Estella hates men, therefore Pip. This shows that the bitterness in Miss Havisham has made her crazy but who can blame her when the love of her life abandoned her like that at the alter. But of course there are no excuses in making an innocent girl grow up with hate and loathe which raises the question if Miss Havisham has a good heart? However as Pip grows up Miss Havisham gets even more obsessed with making sure that he loves Estella by telling Pip to 'Love her' constantly. This in my opinion shows that Miss Havisham is caring, she wants to make sure that whatever happened to her will not happen to Estella which in my opinion shows the good side of her although a little crazy. 

Still her broken heart doesn't explain why she goes around ruining other peoples lives, especially Pip's who was just a boy who fell in love with Estella and went through changes of becoming a charming boy to impress her even more. On one side I think that Miss Havisham does all the bad because of her broken heart which for a girl or a woman especially on her wedding day is a hard one to get over which leads her to poison other peoples lives making them feel worse than she does, however I think there is more to it than just a heartbreak or just a hatred towards the male sex. Her rotten clothes, hair, surroundings and house shows that it is what she lives and breaths. I think that the time stopped when Miss Havisham was at her most hurt and spiteful which is why from then her mission was revenge. If Miss Havisham cannot even trust her own relatives who only want her money and constantly talk about her behind her back how is she supposed to trust anyone else and lets face it in the 19th century a woman's mission was to get married and be married so after all of that was taken away from her she had nothing left, not even relatives that cared about her or she even cared for.

To me it seems as if Miss Havisham wants to forgive and let Estella be happy because she tells Pip to love him however it appears to be the exact opposite because as she is trying to make Pip fall in love with Estella she is telling Estella' You cannot love him' as she is trying to feed of Pip's broken heart to make herself feel better about hers.