He holds his camera on the mist of England’s marsh country, which Pip traverses to lay flowers on his parents’ grave, and the moth-eaten wedding dress Miss Havisham still wears. Knight suffuses the palette of his series with Miss Havisham’s haunting whiteness. In FX’s new limited series, helmed by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and premiering Sunday, Dickens’s dialogue is less recited than interpreted. The classic 1861 novel, which explores Pip’s sudden elevation thanks to a mysterious benefactor, has inspired endless adaptations of varying faithfulness. Her trauma has trapped her in the past, one of Dickens’s central themes. She had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white.” Later in the book, Pip learns from a relative of Miss Havisham’s why she clings so fiercely to this traditional wedding color: She was left at the altar by a fortune hunter. He observes one particular detail: Miss Havisham “was dressed in rich materials-satins, lace, and silks-all of white. She’s invited Pip to her mansion uptown to play with her adopted daughter, Estella, and he’s forced to attend by his domineering sister. No one who’s read Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations could forget the first time that Pip, the young orphan and blacksmith’s apprentice, meets the wealthy town recluse Miss Havisham.
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