Gothic Elements

I have chosen these five elements as i feel to me they are representative of the storyline, characteristics and themes within Great Expectations.

1. Suffering: I feel that a lot of the characters experience suffering through out the story from the start, especially in the cases of Magwich and Miss Havisham having gone through times that have effected there lives forever and now they are suffering because of this. 
2. Gloomy tone & mood: This relates to the settings surrounding the characters, the marshes especially hold this feeling often created an atmosphere that you can feel something bad will happen there.
3. Melancholy/Melodramatic action: This to me represents Miss havisham one of the main characters in the text sitting in Satis house never leaving feeling sad and sorry for herself, the melodramatic nature in her eccentric character also represents a larger than life character. 
4. Unsatisfied yearning, cloaked, secret passion, verbal coquettishness or flirting: this expresses Pips secret passion for Estella the ongoing flirting and yearning for her within Satis house prompted by Miss havisham this only encourages him when he gets to London to become a gentleman for her.
5. Psychological discovery: this relates to the process and transition in which the characters find themselves, for example Pip realising social class dose not define who he is and the need to be a gentleman to impress Estella and finding out she is the daughter of Magwich a convict furthermore the transition of Miss havisham using Estella to hurt men like in revenge to her own experiences i feel the scene when pip returns to tell Estella he loves her is key in seeing Miss Havisham's regret and discovery into what she turn Estella into rearing her to have no feelings.