What Is Miss Havisham Fire
There is nothing to say for sure that Miss Havisham has tried to set herself on fire. Pip looks in at her, she is sitting close to the fire. As he starts to leave, she catches fire, but he does not say that he saw her move in any way that would have caused her to catch fire.However, the things that she has been saying show that she feels very bad about the way she has lived. She feels especially bad about the way that she has treated Estella. She feels guilty for the fact that she has taken Estella's heart and left ice in its place. So we cannot really tell whether she has done it on purpose, but I think you can say that Dickens might have meant this to be her penance. You can say that the fire cleanses her because it burns the wedding