Great Expectations

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Like the earlier chapters, this section abounds in mystery and foreshadowing, particularly relating to Miss Havisham's character: what do you conjecture is the reason behind her bizarre appearance, her behavior, and her home decor, with its stopped clocks and crumbling relics of an earlier time?

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In Chapter Eleven, Miss Havisham brings Pip into a great banquet hall where a table is set with food and large wedding cake. But the food and the cake are years old, untouched except by a vast array of rats, beetles and spiders which crawl freely through the room. It is clear that the decay of her and the house stem from her wedding day that none of her relatives dare to mention.... that on that day, she stopped living, and since, has lived in a world without love.

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