How Gothic is depicted in great expectations ( Element of uncanny in Great Expectation)

The Uncanny

The word Uncanny means strange or mysterious especially in unsettling way.

In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Both Magwitch and Miss Havisham, the living seem uncannily to resemble the dead.  Dickens seems to break the boundary between life and death by making the dead seem strangely able to return to seize the living and bend them to their will. 
Pip’s father is dead but Pip is haunted by substitute and ghostly father-figures, such as Magwitch. Miss Havisham too is haunted by her own dead past and when Pip first sees her, she seems almost to have allowed herself to become this uncanny, haunting figure, and draws others into her deathly world. She has become the living corpse of her own happiness. This self-destructive (but also self-preserving) staging of herself as a bride on the threshold of her wedding preserving her in time, at the moment of a traumatic event . Unable to let the past go,  has made her simultaneously powerful and powerless. Miss Havisham is both the victim of her abandonment and the dominant, powerful, even seductive, oppressor of Pip and Estella.

Gothic
From the start of the book we are introduced to the gothic side of the book.  In the first chapter of the book  it starts off at the grave site where Pip visits his dead family. However the story becomes more Gothic and tense when Magwitch is introduced 
in the first chapter.

We also see Gothic forces on a bigger scale in one of the turning-points of the book, when Pip sees Miss Havisham for the first time:

dressed in rich materials -- satins, and lace, and silks -- all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table. Dresses, less splendid than the dress she wore, and half-packed trunks, were scattered about ... I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes ... Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state. Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been dug out of vault under the church pavement. Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me. I should have cried out, if could. (ch. 8)

The uncanniness of the passage comes  alive by  its repetitions, in which some simple words like – hair, dress, bride, white, brightness, waxwork, skeleton – repeat over and again. It’s as if Pip can’t let go of what he sees, as if he is in a trance and cannot snap out of it. There is a different use of the Gothic later in the book, when Magwitch returns and reveals to the horrified Pip that he is his benefactor. Pip writes:

The imaginary student pursued by the misshapen creature he had impiously made, was not more wretched than I, pursued by the creature who had made me, and recoiling from him with a stronger repulsion, the more he admired me and the fonder he was of me. (ch. 40)

The ‘imaginary student pursued by the misshapen creature’  could be  Frankenstein, from Mary Shelley’s novel of 1818. In this passage Pip seems to compare himself to a monster just like in Frankenstein..
   
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(www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-gothic-in-great-expectations#sthash.ve1G9Xzu.dpuf)

(http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-gothic-in-great-expectations#sthash.ve1G9Xzu.dpuf)