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The theme of endings in Havisham
Ending of Love
Ending of Identity
Ending of the life she knew before
Ending of Sanity
‘Beloved sweetheart bastard
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The medial caesura is used to make the statement stand out, it has a stronger
impact on the audience because of this, the last word ‘bastard’ has a harsh
sound and to put a full stop after it makes it more dramatic
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‘Not a day since then i haven't wished him dead
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It is also showing that something in her past has
happened that she is unable to forgive him for, their love has ended and the
anger she feels has not burnt out
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Again, the medial caesura is used for emphasis
on the final word of the sentence, ‘dead
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‘dark pebbles for eyes’
Eyes are all consuming, they show emotions and are seen as being the windows
to your soul
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Ending of sanity
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Veins from clenching her hands in anger, years of self hatred and passion
building up
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She really has spent every day wishing him dead, this suggests that
whatever happened was extremely painful
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‘Spinster
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There are negative
connotations of a woman being a spinster when really it just means that they are
single, she uses the word negatively as she believes it makes her unclean and
disgraceful
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Ending of love, her
past life and her image of self
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She is clearly distressed and being
consumed by the passion, the idea of what she has lost is physically painful for
her to remember
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She has gone so far into
despair that she no longer knows who she is
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‘Puce curses that are sounds not words’
Everything that she has lost as a result of the end of her relationship is driving
her to lose her sanity, she is becoming more animalistic, her thought process are
impulsive and inhuman
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‘the lost body over me’
Remembering better times, imagining her lost happiness, this makes her pain
more real and the end of her relationship and her love more true
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The word
‘lost’ shows that it was not a deliberate break up on her part, he was lost to her
through his choice not hers
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This makes it even more tragic as her emotions
are so contrasting
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‘Love’s hate behind a white veil;’
The enjambment linking the final two stanzas is used to accentuate the oxymoron
and the contrast between love and hate, this is the conflict that takes place within
her mind every day as she is forced to come to terms with the realities of her
situation
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‘Red balloon bursting in my face
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The use of a caesura accentuates the violence behind the statement, the ‘red
balloon’ represents passion, lust and love, all of which end as it bursts
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‘Male corpse’
This shows the end of life which the poem has largely focused on with the
semantic field of violence and death, she hates him and therefore wants him
dead however she loves him and so wants him to stay with her
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‘Don’t think its only the heart that b-b-b-breaks
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He broke her heart when he ended the relationship and
as a result she wants to break his bones and end his life

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