At the beginning we are repelled by Magwitch by his manner of his speech, how he says it, appearance and of his rough habits. In chapter one when we first meet Magwitch he speaks to Pip in a tone of voice which would scare anyone, especially a young boy. This is shown in chapter one when Magwitch says to Pip “You get me a file and you get me wittles, you bring ‘em both to me. Or I’ll have your heart and liver out.” Pip even confesses that he was scared of Magwitch because he writes ‘I was dreadfully frightened.’
But as we learn about his brutal life we become more sympathetic towards him. When he meets Pip in London when he confesses that he is his benefactor, he is so proud in the gentleman he has created. He shows this in chapter 39 when Magwitch calls Pip master when Pip asks Magwitch if he would like to come in. It was as if he was not good enough to call him Pip or as he was a slave to Pip. Later on Magwitch says to Pip ‘You acted noble, my boy. Noble, Pip!’ Magwitch also shows that he is proud of the gentleman he has made again in chapter 39 when he tells Pip “Yes, Pip, dear boy, I’ve made a gentleman on you! It’s me wot has done it! I swore that time, sure as ever I earned a guinea, that guinea should go to you…. Wot you kep life in, got his head so high that he could make a gentleman – and, Pip you’re him!” Magwitch says this in such a proud way, that he shows that he could not be any happier on the way Pip has turned out, a great gentleman.
Pip realises that Magwitch’s character has changed for the best and Pip forms a strong affection for the one he knew as a convict, is more like a second father to him. Magwitch loves Pip he feels that Pip is a replacement for the child he lost. Magwitch expresses that he feels like a second father for Pip in chapter 39 Magwitch says to Pip “Look’ee here, Pip. I’m your second father. You’re my son – more to me nor any son. I’ve put away money, only for you to spend.”
At the beginning of the book Miss Havisham and Magwitch both acted in a threatening and intimating way towards Pip. Magwitch does this in the marshes when he makes Pip bring him a file and some wittles. Pip doesn’t bring them to him because he wants to, but he does it because he is scared of what Magwitch would do him if he didn’t. Miss Havisham acts threatening and intimating towards Pip when he goes to meet her for the first time, by the tone and the language she uses when talking to Pip. In chapter 8 when Pip tells her that he can not play as everything is so new and so strange to him, after that she tells Pip to call Estella. Miss Havisham says to Pip “Call Estella. You can do that? At the door” She says this in a sarcastic way.
Miss Havisham and Magwitch are similar in the fact that in the beginning of the book they are both found by Pip to be lonely and isolated. Miss Havisham is isolated as she hasn’t left the house for a long time, she doesn’t have any friends and has very few relatives or people that visit her. She is lonely because she nobody lives with her or loves her as she acts like she is better then others and she is always trying to seek revenge on the male sex. Magwitch is lonely and isolated as he is in the marshes all on his own and also he has been in prison for a long time, and in prison he doesn’t get to interact with the other prisoners.
Another way that Miss Havisham and Magwitch are similar is that they are both rejected from the community and they are both uneducated.
Miss Havisham and Magwitch are similar because Miss Havisham in the beginning of the book is very selfish in her characteristic because she always wants people to do things for her and never repays them. Like for instant the only reason she adopted Estella is so that she can seek revenge on all the male sex and so that she can get the satisfaction of the male sex suffering emotionally and physically. But nearer the end of the book her characteristics changes for the better, she realises and is sorry that she has turned Estella into a monster. She tries to make Estella change her ways by undoing all the things that she has told Estella to do, like tormenting the male sex. She is all proud of how Pip has turned into a prefect gentleman.
Magwitch isn’t as selfish as Miss Havisham in the beginning of the book but he is in the fact that he wants the file and the wittles for himself, but he needs these to make him not in as much pain. Nearer to the end his characteristics also changes for the better as he using his own money to turns Pip into a gentleman. He also acts like a father figure towards Pip.
Miss Havisham and Magwitch are different in the fact that Miss Havisham was completely spoilt and had an enormous house to live in, lots of money. But Magwitch doesn’t have his own house and any money he did make was spent on Pip to turn him into a perfect gentleman. Another reason their characteristics is that Miss Havisham was more of a fantasist, yet Magwitch was a realist. I think that Miss Havisham is a fantasist because of the way she lives, the way that she had stopped her life. In the fact that all the clocks in the house had been stopped at twenty minutes to nine and the way that she still had on her wedding dress. I think that Magwitch is more of a realist because he always has good reasons for his actions, for example he turned Pip into a gentleman because of Pip’s loyalty towards him when he first met Pip on the marshes.
So I my conclusion is that Miss Havisham and Magwitch are more similar then you would of thought so. As many of their characteristics are very similar and the time that they changed how they acted.