Satis House

Satis House is the gothic mansion home of Miss Havisham and young Estella. This was the house Estella was brought up in and where Miss Havisham was abandoned on her wedding day and where she remained for the rest of her life, then died in. Although I have an idea from film and TV portrayals of what Satis House looked like, I decided to look further into the details and descriptions of the house to get a feel of what it was really like so I can imagine how being there effected Miss Havisham and Estella mentally and physically. I think Satis House is a portrayal of Miss Havishams mental well being after her heart was broken by her intended husband and shows how her motivation and positive outlook on life completely disintegrated from that day forward.


"Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham's House, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred. There was a courtyard in front, and that was barred... I peeped in... and saw that at the side of the house there was a large brewery. No brewing was going on in it, and none seemed to have gone on for a long time (54)."

"...The first thing I noticed was, that the passages were all dark, and that she had left a candle burning there. [Estella] took it up, and we went through more passages and up a staircase, and still it was all dark, and only the candle lighted us (55)."

"From that room, too, the daylight was completely excluded, and it had an airless smell that was oppressive. A fire had been lately kindled in the damp old-fashioned grate, and it was more disposed to go out than to burn up... Certain wintry branches of candles on the high chimney-piece faintly lighted the chamber... It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. The most prominent object was a long table with a table-cloth spread on it, as if the feast had been in preparation when the house and the clocks all stopped together. An epergne or centre-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable; and, as I looked along the yellow expanse out of which I remember it seeming to grow, like a black fungus, I saw speckled-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it, and running out from it...I heard the mice too, rattling behind the panels... the black-beetles took no notice of the agitation and groped about the earth in a ponderous elderly way (82-83)."

Using the research and reading I have done and my portrayals from films and TV I made a mind map of what I think Satis House would be like:

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References:
http://thedesignersmuse.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/new-on-masterpiece-classic-great.html
http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/describe-miss-havisham-her-house-24291