Author(s)

Juan Wang

Corresponding Author

Juan Wang

Abstract

Miss Havisham is one of the special characters in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. She is mad and cruel. However, she actually is a victim under the male center society. This thesis mainly focuses on the analysis of Miss Havisham from Feminist Criticism. In this paper, this tragic character will be analyzed her marriage and family under the male center society from feminist criticism. In this way, we can have an objective and all round understanding of this image.

Keywords

Feminist criticism, Miss havisham, Great expectations