Miss Havisham’s Experience with the Gothic Space in Dickens’ s Great Expectations
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2017-06
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This thesis “Miss Havisham’ s Experience with the Gothic Space in Dickens’ Great
Expectations” traces over two chapters Charles Dickens’ adaptation of the Gothic elements into his
classic Victorian novel “Great expectations”. This study extends and focuses on the great gothic
characteristics function through a female figure “Miss Havisham” and her alteration for the uncanny
gothic role within the novel. This investigation aims at laying attention on the way she creates her
gothic space, and to show through evidence the position she took in marrying the gothic. The whole
work is devoted to explore the main character “Miss Havisham” in order to understand her
psychological state. The study reports on a minute stand on “Miss Havisham” the villainy creature
that changed her attitudes and mood from a well set up lady ready for marriage to an intense
upheaval of a desperate, degenerated and vengeful woman. This project responds to the
Bildungsroman “Great expectations” which portrays the degree of extreme hate that a woman can
bear to man through “Miss Havisham” characterization.
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Key words. Victorian Era, Gothic literature, Gothic space.