Cruel Fate: Reading Question for Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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December 06, 2010
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8. In Chapter 49, when Miss Havisham is set on fire, do you believe that, given her state of mind, Dickens intends us to read this as an accident or as a kind of penance/attempted suicide on her part for her cruelty to Pip and Estella?
