Category: Bleak House
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Urban Poverty and Social Inequality in Charles Dickens’ Novel ‘Bleak House’
“It is a small room, nearly black with soot, and grease, and dirt. In the rusty skeleton of a grate, pinched in the middle as if poverty had gripped it, a red coke fire burns low… In another corner a ragged old portmanteau on one of the two chairs serves for cabinet or wardrobe; no…
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The Problem of Resistance and Personal Obsession in Charles Dickens’ ‘Bleak House’
Obsession is something that everyone goes through at some point but destroys those who take it to the extreme. Richard Carstone is an example of how obsession can consume an individual. In ‘Bleak House’, Richard is an orphan who comes into contact with the Jarndyce case. The Jarndyce case is the major plot point that…