Cruelty In Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Charles Dickens has written the story “Great Expectations” to show that cruelty acts as a bridge to a newer phase in one’s life and wants to show how one has or will become in that phase. In Great Expectations, Miss Havisham will present cruelty at its finest after one gets to know her more and learn what tragedies she has been through. Dickens also presents that cruelty comes at a different time later on after you assume you got to know someone really well. It will come as you are in someone’s “trap.” In Great Expectations, Miss Havisham’s expectations are rained upon. She turns into this “rich and grim lady” who in which refuses to take off her worn out, tattered wedding gown or to even hire a cleaning service for that matter. Miss Havisham
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Miss Havisham as shown encourages Estella to entrap Pip and break his heart. One may not exactly think that there is a “trap” if Havisham adopts someone and one thing is to break hearts. The trap is then hidden and would take someone really smart to see it right away. In this case then Ms. Havisham wants Pip to love Estella so a reader could think she feels bad but really it could be so there could be a further act of cruelty committed. "Love her, love her, love her! 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!" What this looks like is that it is a sketchy thing she’d like Pip to do and one could think that this is another act of cruelty. Overall what can be made from this is that one honestly does not have the right to treat someone like how Ms. Havisham did. Just because someone has hurt you doesn’t mean you get to treat them that way. Especially setting them up to someone else to be broken. You would never have someone assist you it is just vile, nasty, disgusting. It does just show that this type person has no breaks of any kind. No moral breaks whatsoever. This behavior could inflict dire consequences on the person in which is committing acts like these. Worst consequence is death. This shows that when you have fire going and are too close one can experience severe pain. Karma still exists no matter where at even in literature one will see it. Pip just could not save her in good
Miss Havisham as shown encourages Estella to entrap Pip and break his heart. One may not exactly think that there is a “trap” if Havisham adopts someone and one thing is to break hearts. The trap is then hidden and would take someone really smart to see it right away. In this case then Ms. Havisham wants Pip to love Estella so a reader could think she feels bad but really it could be so there could be a further act of cruelty committed. "Love her, love her, love her! 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!" What this looks like is that it is a sketchy thing she’d like Pip to do and one could think that this is another act of cruelty. Overall what can be made from this is that one honestly does not have the right to treat someone like how Ms. Havisham did. Just because someone has hurt you doesn’t mean you get to treat them that way. Especially setting them up to someone else to be broken. You would never have someone assist you it is just vile, nasty, disgusting. It does just show that this type person has no breaks of any kind. No moral breaks whatsoever. This behavior could inflict dire consequences on the person in which is committing acts like these. Worst consequence is death. This shows that when you have fire going and are too close one can experience severe pain. Karma still exists no matter where at even in literature one will see it. Pip just could not save her in good