Miss Havisham is a prominent character in the Dickens novel ‘Great
Expectations’. Many actress’ have taken on the role of portraying her,
including Helena Bonham Carter and Gillian Anderson.
In the 2012 movie version Helena Bonham Carter plays the
jilted bride in an interesting way. For me personally I found it really hard to
see her as the frail and heartbroken women in the novel. When watching the film
I found that she didn’t seem as damaged as I would think she would need to be.
For example in the 2011 BBC TV movie I think that Gillian Anderson portrayed
her really well. I felt that out of the two she was the best, showing both a
broken heart but also how damaged she is at the same time, she appears in the
TV movie to be weak in her physical appearance but so strong in her mind to
avenge what happened to her and break young boys hearts using her adopted
daughter Estella.
In the films she is shown to be quite old but in the dickens
novel she is said to be actually only in her mid-fifties, highlighting the
damaging effect of years of heart break and her neglecting her health.
On the left is Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham and on the right is Helena Bonham Carter.
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