A person · 1861 · Victorian
Miss Havisham
A woman in Great Expectations who is left jilted at the altar, stops eating, ages, and arranges to be found the way she was on her wedding day - decades later, in a wedding dress, in a darkened room.
The most complete fictional treatment of the object of a parasocial bond being a person who was never real, and of the grief outliving the reasons for it. She is not a metaphor for a fictional character, she is a person who has mistaken her own wedding for a plot.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Where it sits
1800 1800-1899 · 1861 1899
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- unverifiedDickens, Great Expectations, 1861, Book 1, chapter 8 and chapter 19.Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations, 1861. ↗
CHARACTER The written character
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