Havisham and Havisham

scarper Havisham and Havisham Two Entirely Different People chirrup Anne Duffys verse is intertextual. The character Havisham was built, off of Charles demon Great Expectations and to a greater extent specific whollyy off of break loose Havisham. Both Miss Havisham and Havisham are depict as decaying skeletons and because of their similar names it would straighten break sense to think of them as the same person, exactly are they really? At my for the first time survey it beted as if two Dickens and Duffys Havisham were the same character and I will admit there are some similarities like their obsession, simply even these so called similarities have differences at their core.In reality they are very different characters that act differently and have different personalities. eventide the route they are depicted, is very differently from wiz anformer(a), besides when one looks at them together they do meet to help Dickens Miss Havisham be seen in a different life a more gracious light. So even if the do count similar, they are in circumstance very different. You bottomland see these differences most plasteredly by smell at the Havishams personalities. Dickens Miss Havisham is strong, powerful and driven for retaliation towards Compeyson, and every other man alive.She even plans to and manipulates Estella so she may arrest her revenge and hurt many men the way she has been hurt. Duffys Havisham on the other hand seems to be more fragile and fainthearted and tells everyone she hates him and seems to be tottering on the meet of her conviction and on the edge of her desire for him. Both Miss Havisham and Havisham seem to have a strong obsession, both are obsessed with their former fiance and have get going there life surrounding themselves with that obsession. Dickens Miss Havisham obsession does consort to differ from Duffys Havisham.Dickens Havisham is obsessed with destroying and breaking any and all men she meets. Her obsession has even elapse her to destroying Estella, the only one that she had at first sought to harbor. My Dear Believe this when she first came to me, I meant to save her from ill fortune like my experience. At first I meant no more. Well, well state I. I hope so. But as she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, I gradually did worse, and with my praises, and with my jewels, and with my teachings, and with this lick of myself al ways out front her a warning to bandaging and point my essons, I stole her heart away and put drinking glass in its place (Dickens 365) At first, Miss Havisham wished to protect Estella from the harsh world, to protect her from any man who would hurt her as she herself was hurt, but obsession lead her down a darker racetrack. We ignore see part of this darkness when she tries to make Pip like herself, to make him obsessed and live his life pin down by his experience for Estella, tho like she lived her life for preserving the time before she was left by Compeyson.We faeces see her fueling his sexual have sex for Estella some(prenominal) times throughout the novel, one of the most noticeable would be when she tells him to love Estella even if she hurts him. Love her, love her, love her How does she use you? Before I could answer she repeated, Love her, love her, raw sienna her If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear your heart to pieces and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper love her, love her, love her (Dickens 219).Pip, like Estella is becoming a marionette for Miss Havishams obsession, for if she could not have a life of happiness, a life organism married to the one she thought loved her, no one could. Her revenge towards the man she once loved turns her erosive and twisted, putting anyone in her path in danger. At this time she is like a broken toy, break down and working herself into a frenzy, her revenge that started off towards one man has establish a revenge an d hatred towards love, and anyone who may achieve it.The Havisham from Duffys poem seems to have a more single minded obsession. She is obsessed with what has happened to her and the one who did this to her. Her obsession for the man who jilted her takes both and prehensile and murderous tone, for congresswoman she has dark green pebbles for eye and ropes on the abide of my hands she could dull with(Duffy Lines 3-4). No her eyes have not turned into pebbles, but she is envious and jealous of her former lover, after all she is rotting from the inside out while he is nourishment without even having regretted hurting her.The ropes on the back of her hands could mean many things but it could be an indication of her age, or her veins swollen with age and sticking off of her corpse like body. The incident she could strangle with her own veins shows a sinister scene, who she wishes to strangle could be herself but is most likely the man who jilted her. The only real likeness surrou nded by the Havishams would be there crappy appearance. After all both of Havisham descriptions are dark and tend to make them seem like the living dead of skeletons for example DickensHavisham is descri recognize as follows I saying that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I truism that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had shrunk to skin and bone. Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me (Dickens 52) Miss Havisham has decayed and withered away, she still wears her bridal dress, and it has yellowed and decayed along with her.She has no substance, she is a person that has already died long ago, and only an empty crazed shell remains. Duffys Havisham has a similar description, Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days/ in bed cawing Nooooo at the w all the dress/ yellowing, trembling if I open the crush/ the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this/ to me? (Duffy Lines 5-9). Havisham has both the appearance of Miss Havisham and her name, she even is still wearing her own bridal dress, even after all the years it has been since she was jilted. She has also yellowed, decayed and her withered body trembles from the strain of life.But Havisham spends days cawing at the wall, she has at rest(p) past the point of straight forwardly get revenge, her words are choppy, sharp and she cant seem to follow a though. She has fractured mentally and can only think of her pain from being betrayed. She, unlike Miss Havisham, has no grip on reality and cannot accomplish her revenge. Another one of the differences between the Havisham is that Dickens Miss Havisham is strong and steady in her desires, whereas Duffys Havisham is weak and wavers in her feelings. Miss Havisham is defined by her rejection on her wedding day.She is opi nionated to live in heartbreak while making it impossible for those or so her to have healthy relationships. She stops all the clocks, she wears the same dress, she never take in in front of anyone and only every wears one shoe. She essentially stop time for herself by not allowing anything to change after she learns about her lovers betrayal and her determination has helped her to do this. Ill tell you what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the entire world, giving up your whole heart and sense to the smiteras I did (Dickens 219).Duffys Havisham on the other hand is constantly wavering, she can seem to make up her mind about her true feelings, and after all when you look at how broken she is it is not a big surprise. Even her fist line has a contradiction about her feelings, Beloved salmon pink bastard. / Some nights better, the lost body over me,/ my fluent tongue in its mouth i n its ear/ then down till I suddenly bite awake(Duffy Lines 1, 10 -12). After seeing these lines we can be sure that Havisham has mixed feelings about her ex-fiance.She obviously bounces between bitter hatred and self-loathing that she still desires them. Her ex is both something that she finds beloved and a sweetheart, but also feels betrayed by after all she does call him a bastard. We can see she still desires his body when she speaks about the lost body on top of her. But you can see her bitterness remains by her dehumanization of him. When you first read Great Expectations Miss Havisham does not seem to be real. She seemed to me to be a creation from a childs imagination.She is a ghost, a skeleton and an engineer who takes pleasure in manipulating everyone from Estella to Pip. though after having read Duffys Havisham, it seems as if Miss Havisham is more human. Duffys Havisham wants to have a male corpse for a long mute honeymoon (Duffy Line 15). She is quite twisted according to our standards and makes Dickens Miss Havisham seem tame and mild is they are shown together. Havisham is dark and has a just about murderous intent she is violent and is more dangerous, especially if we compare her to Miss Havisham. Havisham is but a jibe to make Miss Havisham seem softer, and nicer.A tool that makes it possible to have pity upon Miss Havsham and place the blame of her on-line(prenominal) state upon her insensitive ex-fiance Compeyson. So, in conclusion, the two Havishams that at first seem to be one and the same are in fact different. Dickens Havisham is strong and unwavering, determined and manipulative, while Duffys Havisham is weak and wavering, helpless but dangerous. They both have very different personalities, and very different ways of looking at things. They are two completely different individuals that just happen to have a similar name and appearance.They dont act the same they dont have the same desires or motives so they can not be the same pers on. When they are fixed side by side they just use each other to let the other be seen in a different light. Whether we see a crazed, dark evil or a pitiful, lonely soul depends on the Havisham you wish to view. Works Cited Dickens, Charles, and Margaret Cardwell. Great Expectations. Oxford Oxford UP, 1998. Print. Duffy, Carol Ann. Havisham. Introduction to slope Studies. North Bay Nipissing University Coursepack, 2012. Black Board. C. McFarlane. Web. 02 Mar. 2012.