Yes, the witch chattereth on about the Great Expectations plot, as if a stopped clock were right all of the time, and not only twice a day, once again proving that a beauty Queen does not a Prophetess make, or so the script goes. And poor Miss Havisham just sits there in her rat infested hovel contemplating the moldering cake never eaten, but you have already had your cake and eaten it, too, so what is that to you?
Probably no monarch wants to share the fate of King Uzziah, who for taking upon himself the duties of a priest, when rebuked by the high priest Azariah, was afflicted with leprosy and had to live out the remainder of his reign in a separate house, isolated from society to avoid contagion, and was later succeeded by his son Jotham, according to 2 Chronicles 26. Or was it Azariah who was the king afflicted with leprosy, later succeeded by his son Jotham, as in 2 Kings 15? Either way, the fate of the leper king cannot have symbolized any great strengthening for the monarchical office of King, one can probably tend to imagine. And the office of Prophet also held no prestige. Who wants to be hounded by evil King Ahab and his wicked Queen Jezebel? A Prophet might find it preferable to hide away in some remote cavern, fed by birds, than to risk the onslaught of Jezebel, one might safely imagine, given that is how the story goes.
