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Dickens made a haunted tone for Pip’s introduction to Miss Havisham.It is symbolic how her house is described. `Had a great many bars to it. Some of the windows had been walled up †¦ all the lower were rustily barred`. Dickens life was quite tough for him when he was a child. At a young age Dickens went to a Grammar School until his father went bankrupt due to some bad investments. After this unfortunate event Dickens was taken out of his grammar school and he was forced to work at a blacking factory which is where they made shoe polish. Dickens had to go live with his dad in prison and eventually his family and dickens after a lot of work paid off the bankruptcy. Dickens father was then freed. Dickens now knew what it felt like to be†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"Manor House†¦Its other name was Satis; which Greek is, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three – or all one to me – for enough† Estella shows a not bothered attitude to where she lives because she has been brain washed by Miss Havisham to where she lives. The name is ironic because the other name was satis which means satisfied and is ironic because everyone in that house are all miserable, and also it is ironic that Estella’s home has a dual identity but it’s ironic because the house also has a double identity which is quite freaky. The comment that is made about education of women here is that in the Victorian times women were only taught cosmetic management that the women education was quite poor. Dickens uses gothic literature to describe her house. `Only the candle lighted us` The link to literature is that the past had come to haunt them because she was evil. We are finally introduced to Miss Havisham. `†¦sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see†¦. She had but one shoe on her†¦ her watch and chain were not on†¦ all confusedly heaped about the looking-glass.` The superlatives in this quote is the words `Strangest` which is describing Miss Havisham and this is explaining that she is an `alien` to the world. the watch symbolises stopping time which she did, and she stopped time at the moment of her wedding which was the worst point of her life. The mirror symbolises the truth that she can’t take. A sematic