Dickens set a haunted tone for Pip's introduction to Miss Havisham. The way his house is described is symbolic. It had many bars. Some of the windows had been bricked up... all the lower windows had rusty bars. Dickens's life was quite hard for him as a child. At a young age, Dickens went to a high school until his father went bankrupt due to bad investments. After this unfortunate event, Dickens was removed from his high school and forced to work in a blackening factory manufacturing shoe polish. Dickens had to go live with his father in prison and eventually, after a lot of work, his family and Dickens settled the bankruptcy. Dickens's father was then released. Dickens now knew what it felt like to be imprisoned and also witnessed the last public execution and saw people die. He expressed all this in the novels he wrote. Miss Havisham's psychology was that on the wedding day, the groom did not show up for the wedding ceremony. The groom told her this, sending her a letter on the wedding day saying they would no longer marry. She then decided to isolate herself at the worst time of her life and this was inspired by Dickens working in the blackening factory which he hated and which was the worst part of his life. Victorian ideas about decadence are that the things you own or live with or what you look like resembles your personality. The reader's first impression of Estella is that she is cruel. “It’s Pip, isn’t it?” `Replied the young woman, who was very pretty and seemed very proud…….“Ah! said ...... middle of paper ...... iss Havisham uses to Pip create a mood of imperative sentence “Come near; let me look at you, come closer. This reveals about Victorian attitudes towards children and social classes that the working classes were not treated with respect and also that children should be seen and not heard and speak when you are spoken to too. The reader is shown a glimpse of how Miss Havisham's self-pity has become distorted. “eager”, “strong”, “smile”, “boast” Miss Havisham feels very proud of her life because in the proof it says smile which means she is happy. about his life of poverty. The name Estella was carefully chosen by Dickens to reflect Pip's feelings towards her. The next smile draws our attention to this. "Like a star", Estella's name means star in Latin and he believes that he is destined or destined to marry Estella and that stars were also used for navigation in the good old days..