“I'll tell you…what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!” (p.240) Throughout the course if the novel, Great Expectations, the different types of love are displayed--love through fear, love of self, love of power, and so on--clearly through different characters; Miss Havisham shows love of pain--she can't let go of the past and move on, she can't live without her pain, and she can't show love for anyone anymore. After being stood up on her wedding--a day that is supposed to be filled with love and happiness, instead was filled with humiliation and despair--she gives advice to Pip, a young man, about love, and how you shouldn't love. What kind of person tells a young, happy gentleman that love is a bad thing; love could turn his life around. Miss Havisham is saying that love just ends up in humiliation; that was her story, but other people are different. It seems as though she has remorse towards the thought of ever loving a man; she can't forgive herself, she can't feel good about herself when people around her care for each other, and she can't, and will never, find the light at the end of a tunnel-- the courage to move on.
