![]() ![]() Abandoned in infancy and raised by an abusive aunt, Esther is a self-denying, unassertive young woman, grateful for any recognition she receives from the patriarchal society around her. Esther’s narrative traces her discovery of her identity as the illegitimate child of Lady Dedlock. ![]() By this double narration, he is able to connect and contrast Esther’s domestic story with broad public concerns. ![]() Dickens uses two narrators, a thirdperson narrator who reports on the public life in the worlds of law and fashion and a first-person narrator, Esther Summerson, a young woman who tells her personal history. Often characterized as the first of the late novels, Bleak House describes England as a bleak house, devastated by an irresponsible and self-serving legal system, symbolically represented by the Lord Chancellor ensconced in foggy glory in the Court of Chancery. ![]() Analysis of Charles Dickens’s Bleak Houseīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Januĭickens’s ninth novel, published in monthly parts in 1852–53, with illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne, issued in one volume in 1853. ![]()
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