• How is the Gothic depicted in Great Expectations?
The Gothic in the great expectations is portrayed though the description of Miss Havisham mansion and the erie effect it has on us though description. Gothic can be portrayed though many ways , by architecture and writing.
The Gothic in the great expectations is portrayed though the description of Miss Havisham mansion and the erie effect it has on us though description. Gothic can be portrayed though many ways , by architecture and writing.
• How is the grotesque depicted in Great Expectations?
The grotestesque is the same dress that Miss Havisham has on for twenty plus years. The decaying cake which has our minds reeling at the thought of magot's and the unkept dusty house in which she lives in.
The grotestesque is the same dress that Miss Havisham has on for twenty plus years. The decaying cake which has our minds reeling at the thought of magot's and the unkept dusty house in which she lives in.
• What are specific elements of the uncanny?
Miss Havisham is the uncanny in the Great Expectations, as she is living this dead, alive, half state world in which everyone is drawn into.
She's presented as a sunken, shallow figure that almost floating around in a haggard wedding dress, were time has stood still.
But, I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw 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 saw 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. Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state. Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress, that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement. Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me. I should have cried out, if I could.
chapter 8
Miss Havisham is the uncanny in the Great Expectations, as she is living this dead, alive, half state world in which everyone is drawn into.
She's presented as a sunken, shallow figure that almost floating around in a haggard wedding dress, were time has stood still.
But, I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw 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 saw 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. Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state. Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress, that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement. Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me. I should have cried out, if I could.
chapter 8
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