Great Expectations

Describe Satis house in detail. The Satis house bears a mark of ruin and decay on it with its grand, crumbling mansion, out of order brewery and weeded garden. What could be the author’s message behind it?

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Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham’s house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred. There was a court-yard in front, and that was barred; so, we had to wait, after ringing the bell, until some one should come to open it.

My young conductress locked the gate, and we went across the court-yard. It was paved and clean, but grass was growing in every crevice. The brewery buildings had a little lane of communication with it, and the wooden gates of that lane stood open, and all the brewery beyond, stood open, away to the high enclosing wall; and all was empty and disused.

The description denotes the message that the Satis House is dying a slow death. It is unloved, unkempt, and neglected. This description might also be attributed to its owner, Miss Havisham, whom we shall soon meet. 

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Great Expectations