Author: Cecil Beaton
Year of publication: 1945
Title: Martita Hunt as Miss Havasham in 'Great Expectations'
Viewed: Monday, 2nd February 2015
Available from: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw67579/Martita-Hunt-as-Miss-Havisham-in-Great-Expectations
When reading Great Expectations you learn that Miss Havisham is a complicated character, she has let her surroundings be left to ruin and become a coffin of her former life.
Eternally reliving her wedding day in her truso and keeping the clocks at the time she received the tragic news and thereby capture the very moment her soul was captured by a heartless man.
The humiliation and heartbreak of being jilted and the subsequent public disgrace ruined her life and her mind.
She became cruelly twisted and wanted to create a monster to destroy men in the form of Estella, her adopted child by nurturing a malicious heart towards men.
When I create my interpretation of Miss Havisham I really want to make it so she looks cold from within, slightly mad, and looking like she has become one with the house, deteriorating faster each day.
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