When looking for inspiration for my Miss Havisham I design I
looked at different portrayals of her and how she has been played. The mad,
vengeful Miss Havisham, a wealthy women who lives in a rotting mansion and
wears her old wedding dress every day of her life. Her life is defined by one
single event: her being left at the altar on her wedding day, from then on she
swore to herself that she would never let a man break her heart. While doing
some research I found out some interesting facts; she stopped all the clocks in
Satis House at twenty minutes to nine, the moment when she first learned that
she had been left, and she wears only one shoe, because when she learned of the
betrayal, she had not yet put on the other shoe.
Trying to move on Miss Havisham adopts Estella and raises her
as a weapon to achieve her own revenge on men. Miss Havisham, Estella and the
people in her life all suffer because of her need for revenge. Towards the end
of the novel Miss Havisham is still unaware of how her actions have harmed Pip
and Estella, but at the end she is redeemed when she finally realises all the
heartbreak she has caused the young lovers. At this point Miss Havisham begs
Pip for forgiveness, making us change our opinions on her, and have sympathy
for her.
As this part of our assessment we were being marked on
continuity it wanted to make sure that my design was easy enough to complete
again and to the same standard. I tried out different stages of Miss Havisham’s
life, from the beginning just after her wedding day where her makeup and hair
are all intact but just slightly off. To when we meet her in the novel, with
her hair a mess and everything around her decaying. Because we had learnt aging
makeup in our technical classes I felt that this would be a good skill to show
in my assessment, therefore I decided that my design would show Miss Havisham
ages, grey and worn.
(http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/greatex/canalysis.html)
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