Further thoughts on Miss Havisham

I want to center my design around the quote:

"But you're not dead, Miss."

"Am I not?"

Words that describe Miss Havisham in my mind after concidering this quote:

• Hunched and frail from years of sitting
• Scary to a little boy
• Appears old though stress and torment, but is actually younger than she appears.
• Inner Torment/torture
• Deflated
• Nearly Etheral, floaty, in her own world
• Haunted

Charles Green

Harry Furniss.

I plan for my image to depict these key words. These images are some of my favourites of Miss Havisham as they deny the myth of her being very old and instead show her as a younger woman who has been prematurely aged by depression and lack of sunlight.

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/ge/havisham.html

Last modified 17 January 2012