Bleak House is written by Charles Dickens in 1852. Written over a two-year period in twenty instilments. Dickens uses Bleak House to describe his dislike of the Court of Chancery and the effects on characters from different backgrounds. In his first installment Dickens introduce two narrators to describe the Jarndyce and Jarndyce court case. Dickens views the Chancery Court as a pointless part of the legal system. Looking at point of view, dictions styles, imagery and symbolism Dickens provides background into the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case.
The first two chapters of installment one, are written from a third person omniscient point of view. Third person omniscient point of view allows the narrator to know the thoughts and feeling of everyone. “On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here — as here he is — with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog.” (Dickens, Page 14) Dickens uses words such as “he” and “his” to describe the High Lord Chancellor and his …show more content…
Dickens quotes “…honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, “Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!” (Page 15) Dickens points out that any honorable man would not want to go to chancery court. Dickens describes case in the chancery as droning on. “The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.” (Dickens, Page 16) This is an example of a young man who was promised a rocking horse but while waiting grew up to get his own
The first two chapters of installment one, are written from a third person omniscient point of view. Third person omniscient point of view allows the narrator to know the thoughts and feeling of everyone. “On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here — as here he is — with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog.” (Dickens, Page 14) Dickens uses words such as “he” and “his” to describe the High Lord Chancellor and his …show more content…
Dickens quotes “…honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, “Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!” (Page 15) Dickens points out that any honorable man would not want to go to chancery court. Dickens describes case in the chancery as droning on. “The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.” (Dickens, Page 16) This is an example of a young man who was promised a rocking horse but while waiting grew up to get his own