A bootblack shining another man's shoes. Miss Havisham hides herself away , wears only her wedding clothes, has stopped all the clocks and refuses to see members of her own family. I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
She has also not been outside the house for at least ten years. Miss Havisham has been betrayed by a single man and now wishes to get even with mankind in general. Everything she does especially with Estella is to achieve that purpose. If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her.
If she tears your heart to pieces—and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper—love her, love her, love her! As Miss Havisham urges Pip to love Estella , she says nothing about her loving him in return. This, of course, is not an option. The intensity with which she speaks and the repetition she uses highlights Miss Havisham's mania. Miss Havisham has brought Estella up to be the instrument of her revenge. She looks on her as a daughter even though she is not. She hung upon Estella's beauty, hung upon her words, hung upon her gestures, and sat mumbling her own trembling fingers while she looked at her, as though she were devouring the beautiful creature she had reared.
Pip will not be put off this time and indicating his knowledge of Wemmick's emotional side, appeals to both Jaggers and Wemmick to tell him the truth. Jaggers is surprised to hear about the Aged and Wemmick's playful ways, and Wemmick points out that Jaggers is an imposter where emotions are concerned.
Jaggers, acknowledging his own former "poor dreams," relents, but agrees to only tell a "theoretical" story. He tells of a woman in need of legal help who confides in her attorney that her child is really alive, the father does not know this, and that she is guilty of the crime. The attorney, charged with finding a girl to adopt for a rich woman, and knowing the horrors of what happens to children in the legal system, places the child with the rich woman.
Here is one child saved regardless of what happens to the mother. The lawyer does his best and saves the woman, but the emotions of it all affect her mind.
She is unable to cope with the world. The lawyer takes the theoretical woman in and continues to keep her in line with his power whenever the old, wild ways come out. Stopping, Jaggers then asks Pip if anyone will benefit from knowing this theoretical story. Pip agrees to keep the secret. The episode has upset the unemotional balance between Wemmick and Jaggers who now view each other uncomfortably. The status quo is restored shortly when both of the men rage at a whiny client and tell him that no emotions are allowed in the office.
Havisham has adopted Estella only to get revenge on men, she actually loves Estella and is making her cold hearted because she doesn't want her go through the same type of heartbreak that she herself went through. Havisham's plan was to make Estella tough so that she would not be vulnerable to heartbreak.
Unfortunately, her plan backfired and actually hurt Estella by destroying her opportunity of experiencing love. The now dilapidated Ms. Havisham's crying shows that she did mean well for Estella and just made a mistake that she now regrets. This also leads to my next point in which Ms.
Havisham has so much remorse for what she has done to Estella that she tries to commit suicide by setting herself on fire. This shows that because she really cared for Estella and because she ruined Estella's life, she thought she deserved to die. She wanted to kill herself, not just the easy way to free her conscience, but a painful death to make herself suffer.
Havisham's main plan was to save Estella's heart, getting revenge on men was just an extra yet pleasing coincident that came along in the path of protecting Estella's heart. Did I never give her a burning love, inseparable from jealousy at all times, and from sharp pain, while she speaks thus to me! Let her call me mad, let her call me mad! Because of all the exclamation points, it seems as if she is saying this in a very angry.
The tone tells us that because she really does love Estella, she is getting mad because Estella doesn't realize and appreciate it. All these events from the story lead to the conclusion that Ms. Havisham really does love Estella and did not adopt her only to fulfil her desire of getting revenge on men.
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