Havisham

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Havisham

• By Carol Ann Duffy

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Attitudes and ideas!

• This poem is about a woman that was jilted on her
  wedding day by the love of her life. The
  character is based on Miss Havisham from the
  novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
• She has mixed feelings of love and hatred about
  her fiancé, shown by the phrase Loves/ hate.
  
• She has not changed a thing since her wedding
  day, even her clothes
  
• I stink and remember
• This shows she cannot get over him leaving her.

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Themes, features, and characters

• Themes
• Violence
• Love
• Death
• Hate
• Violence and death feature because she wants to
  kill him for humiliating her.
  
• Love features because she loves him and hates
  him because of what he did to her. This shows
  how she is feeling towards the man that left
  her.
• Beloved sweetheart bastard

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Language

• Beloved sweetheart bastard shows that she loves
  him and hates him at the same time. This is
  called oxymoron. Another example is Loves/
  hate which shows her mixed feelings to the man
  who left her.
• Metaphor is used in the phrase
• Ive dark green pebbles for eyes
• This shows how this has hardened her view on
  life. The colour green could also represent the
  jealousy she feels for her fiancé's new love.
  

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Language and close text analysis

• Beloved and bastard show alliteration that
  helps link these words together to show how these
  conflicting emotions are linked inside her.

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Alternative interpretation.

• Dont think its only the heart that
  b-b-b-breaks.
  
• This could mean she is broken hearted. It could
  also mean that Havisham loved him so much she
  doesnt want to marry anyone else and she doesnt
  want to carry on with her life.

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Structure

• It is a monologue giving Havisham a realistic
  voice.
  
• The second and third stanza is a run on which
  helps the poem flow like normal speech. A run
  on, or enjambment is when the end of the line
  carries on to the next line without a full stop
  or punctuation mark.
• Duffy uses enjambment to split Loves/hate in
  the poem to show Havishams conflict of love and
  hate.
  

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What does it compare to?

• The Laboratory lost love/ desire for
  revenge.
  
• Anne Hathaway relationships
• November death

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Thanks to

• Perarasi
• Zakia
• Kacey
• Faiza
• Philip Alan Updates GCSE Student Text Guide
• Google