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    Havisham: Beloved Sweetheart Bastard

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    Havisham reflects on her lost love and desire for revenge in 3 angry sentences. She dwells on memories of her beloved and wishes him harm, spending her days consumed by hatred. Isolated in her home for years, she has lost her humanity and sanity, lashing out in a bitter and unstable state as she tries to come to terms with her fate of being forever alone.

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    Havisham: Beloved Sweetheart Bastard

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    Havisham reflects on her lost love and desire for revenge in 3 angry sentences. She dwells on memories of her beloved and wishes him harm, spending her days consumed by hatred. Isolated in her home for years, she has lost her humanity and sanity, lashing out in a bitter and unstable state as she tries to come to terms with her fate of being forever alone.

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    Havisham reflects on her lost love and desire for revenge in 3 angry sentences. She dwells on memories of her beloved and wishes him harm, spending her days consumed by hatred. Isolated in her home for years, she has lost her humanity and sanity, lashing out in a bitter and unstable state as she tries to come to terms with her fate of being forever alone.

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    Havisham: Beloved Sweetheart Bastard

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    Havisham reflects on her lost love and desire for revenge in 3 angry sentences. She dwells on memories of her beloved and wishes him harm, spending her days consumed by hatred. Isolated in her home for years, she has lost her humanity and sanity, lashing out in a bitter and unstable state as she tries to come to terms with her fate of being forever alone.

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    Oxymoron - shows her conflicted emotions over her lost love - think Word choice - connotations

    Character from “Great


    line between love and hate. Plosives to create a harsh, spiteful tone. of desperation - shows just
    Expectations” - only
    how much she want to hurt
    her maiden name -
    him.
    reminder of being
    Inversion - shows her strongly negative
    jilted.
    feelings - hatred has consumed her and
    Havisham she is committed to hurting him. Metaphor - veins on her hands
    due to her age or clenching -
    Metaphor - pebbles
    are small and hard - link to hanging - wants to cause
    her eyes have shrunk him harm.
    from being inside with Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then
    no light. Green has I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it Word choice - wants to
    connotations of
    jealousy - she is so hard I’ve dark green pebbles for eyes, cause harm - has violent
    thoughts about the one
    jealous of those who
    are happy. ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with. she once loved.

    Enjambment - amount of
    Word choice of
    time spent reflecting on it.
    One word sentence - Short sentence - to show how little she “yellowing”
    spat out. Reflects the does. Doesn’t care for her appearance as suggests decay,
    fact that she is bitter she spends her time dwelling on memories. Onomatopoeia - shows growing old -
    about being forever extent of her distress. shows how long
    known as this. This is she has been
    all she sees herself as. Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days isolated and
    in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress dwelling on this
    for.
    Word choice -
    connotations of
    yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;
    animalistic - suggests the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this Doesn’t recognise
    she has lost her herself anymore - in a
    humanity and is state of confusion.
    Word choice - Word choice suggests weakness,
    anguished.
    connotations of vulnerability - could be her current
    distortion - reflects her distressed state or her thinking the dress Enjambment to pause
    image of her old self. is moving. Sign of mental instability. to reflect on the state
    Purple - anger flooding of her now. She’s
    her face while changed so much and
    swearing. to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words. can’t quite believe it.
    Some nights better, the lost body over me,
    Fantasising about So angry she can’t form words -
    being with him again my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear animalistic image again.
    sexually.
    then down till I suddenly bite awake. Love’s
    Enjambment/
    Word choice - connotations of agility - Dehumanising him - Dreams of emasculating oxymoron to highlight
    being well practised - she dreams of he has just become a him - waking up to the the thin line between
    this and what could have been a lot. sexual object. harsh reality that she is no these and how she
    longer with him. went quickly from one
    Plosives to create to the other.
    harsh tone - balloon
    symbolises their love/ hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting
    Violent connotations -
    relationship blowing in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding cake. usually something the
    up and ending couple does together.
    suddenly. Short Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon. Shows how bitter she is.
    sentence to create
    sudden shock. Don’t think it’s only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.
    Threat to end the poem -
    plosives to create harsh
    Reference to death
    tone. She could be either
    and the fact he is just Themes
    a body to her now - Carol Ann Duffy * Love
    angry or breaking down
    emotionally at the end.
    threatening. * Loss Instability is emphasised.
    * Revenge Similar to beginning of
    poem.

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