In Bleak House, he created the long-running case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. With jurisdiction over civil matters directly influencing people’s personal lives, like disputes over wills, trusts, land law, and infant guardianship, Dickens found the Court of Chancery’s corrupt machinery a necessary target for moral outrage, and wrote the novel in part to attack it. Over the years this court had spawned a thousand useless regulations and procedures requiring so many documents and so many different types of legal personnel for every case, that the Court moved as slowly to render judgments as the 40 foot “Megalosaurus” Dickens imagines he might meet on a foggy day in the nearby neighborhood. It goes after Lawyers and Their Strangling Red Tape.īleak House focuses on exposing the abuses of early nineteenth England’s corrupt and outmoded Court of Chancery. Ten Reasons People Love (or Sometimes Hate) Bleak House 1. Note: this book is so rich, not even ten reasons can cover all its events and characters. I’m saving my two favorite reasons to love Bleak House for last! I can think of at least ten reasons people love Bleak House-strangely, the same reasons a few readers have hated it! Ultimately, though, most readers discover that Bleak House is not bleak at all, but rather ends with encouraging light and wisdom for all people who are oppressed by unjust systems gone out of control. The Original Bleak House Dickens used as model for the fictional one.
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