BLEAK HOUSE
Bleak house is a big and beautiful novel written by Charles Dickens. The narrator describes a ghost that lurks around Chesney Wold, the home of Lady and Sir Leicester Dedlock. It carries the love, desire, mercy, passion, pleasure and sad. Charles Dickens’s one of the best novel.
Characterization:
Dickens creates dozens of characters. method of characterization is in a sense actually more realistic, more true to what we experience in real life, than the seemingly more complete and "scientific" method of beginning from deep inside and then staying there. Lady Dedlock is a much more interesting character, and she illustrates Dickens' method when he creates "serious" characters major or minor in whom we become interested.
Main characters have to be made interesting if only because they are "around" so much of the time. They are also tied to the book's serious themes, so we have to be able to take such important characters seriously. They dare not be trivial, monotonously simple and unchanging, or unreal.
Esther Summerson - The narrator and protagonist. Esther, an orphan, becomes the housekeeper at Bleak House. She takes over as a first-person narrator. She claims to be unintelligent. She remembers a doll she had when she was a child that she felt was the only person she could talk to. Esther’s godmother, Miss Barbary, raised Esther, and Esther believes that she was fully virtuous but distant and strict.
Themes:
Love and affection
The search for love is not successful for everyone, and it even ends with heartbreak for some. Mr. Guppy tries and fails to become engaged to Esther, making two ridiculous proposals that Esther roundly rejects. Esther accepts Mr. Jarndyce’s proposal, but he calls off his search for love when he acknowledges that the love between them is not the kind of love that will make Esther truly happy. Ada, although she finds true love with Richard, is eventually heartbroken when Richard dies. Sometimes the search for love is literal, and these searches never end well. For example, Lady Dedlock engages in a literal search for love when she tries to find out where her former lover is, and Sir Leicester endeavors to find Lady Dedlock when she disappears from Chesney World. Whether pleasing or tragic, the search for love always proves to be a force that changes characters dramatically.
Love and affection
The search for love is not successful for everyone, and it even ends with heartbreak for some. Mr. Guppy tries and fails to become engaged to Esther, making two ridiculous proposals that Esther roundly rejects. Esther accepts Mr. Jarndyce’s proposal, but he calls off his search for love when he acknowledges that the love between them is not the kind of love that will make Esther truly happy. Ada, although she finds true love with Richard, is eventually heartbroken when Richard dies. Sometimes the search for love is literal, and these searches never end well. For example, Lady Dedlock engages in a literal search for love when she tries to find out where her former lover is, and Sir Leicester endeavors to find Lady Dedlock when she disappears from Chesney World. Whether pleasing or tragic, the search for love always proves to be a force that changes characters dramatically.
Danger of Passion
In Bleak House, passion is important and dangerous, sometimes healthy and satisfying, sometimes harmful and destructive. Many characters recognize the importance of passion for a fulfilling life. For example, Mr. Jarndyce and Esther worry when Richard can’t find a career. Both hope he’ll settle on a career that he’ll feel passionate about, but Richard flits from one thing to the next, never finding anything truly compelling. Esther recognizes the importance of passion in love, which is why she cries as she decides to accept Mr. Jarndyce’s proposal—she loves him, but not in the passionate, romantic way she’s dreamed of loving someone. Even Mr. Jarndyce understands the importance of passion. Although he knows he and Esther could have a happy life together at Bleak House, he also knows their love is built on affection rather than passion. He releases her from her acceptance and settles her with Mr. Woodcourt, who he knows is Esther’s true love.
Language:
The language of novel reflected Charles Dickens as great poet; He eventually became a law clerk but abandoned law to become a journalist. Dickens was a prolific writer and published novels roughly every two years. Bleak House, Dickens’s ninth novel, was published in twenty installments between March 1852 and September 1853. The language which he used to establish philosophical ideas were incomparably remarkable.
The language of novel reflected Charles Dickens as great poet; He eventually became a law clerk but abandoned law to become a journalist. Dickens was a prolific writer and published novels roughly every two years. Bleak House, Dickens’s ninth novel, was published in twenty installments between March 1852 and September 1853. The language which he used to establish philosophical ideas were incomparably remarkable.
Narrative Technique:
This narrator is judgmental, cynical, and always ready with a cruel dig at someone else's expense. It would be hard to imagine reading a novel entirely in that incredibly angry voice. It would be exhausting, not to mention really off-putting – and after all, Dickens did want to move his books off the bookstore shelves. So we get a little relief in the form of Esther. Her voice is soft, gentle, and all about feelings. the third-person narrator, Esther comes across as a real person, whose voice evolves and changes as time goes on
This narrator is judgmental, cynical, and always ready with a cruel dig at someone else's expense. It would be hard to imagine reading a novel entirely in that incredibly angry voice. It would be exhausting, not to mention really off-putting – and after all, Dickens did want to move his books off the bookstore shelves. So we get a little relief in the form of Esther. Her voice is soft, gentle, and all about feelings. the third-person narrator, Esther comes across as a real person, whose voice evolves and changes as time goes on
Bleak House was written about a century and a half ago. Prose style, like almost everything else, has changed. Naturally today's reader may find Dickens' manner rather unfamiliar and in some ways a bit difficult. In order to see Bleak House in the right perspective, it is necessary to pursue this point. Many people today are no longer well-practiced readers. Television and film are the preferred pastimes, and what people do read is more likely to be journalism (or the captions under pictures) than the prose of a literary artist like Dickens.
Point of view:
Third Person (Omniscient) and First Person (Central Narrator). first a hesitant, insecure narrator, Esther’s confidence in her storytelling grows, and she controls the narrative skillfully.
the third-person narrator, Esther comes across as a real person. First, throughout the novel, there is an alternation in the point of view from which the story is being told. Second, there is a corresponding alternation between present tense and past tense
Third Person (Omniscient) and First Person (Central Narrator). first a hesitant, insecure narrator, Esther’s confidence in her storytelling grows, and she controls the narrative skillfully.
the third-person narrator, Esther comes across as a real person. First, throughout the novel, there is an alternation in the point of view from which the story is being told. Second, there is a corresponding alternation between present tense and past tense
Setting:
The novel, Bleak House takes place in or near London, around 1850. The London street scenes are in the Holborn district (on the north bank of the Thames and very close to the river). The depictions of neighborhoods, streets, buildings, working conditions, lighting, weather, dress and deportment of persons, etc., are completely authentic. The fog remains the most famous fog in all literature. Dense, long-lasting blankets of it, yellowish or yellow-brown with pollutants, were common in the coal-burning London of Dickens' time — and later. The descriptions of the goings-on at the Chancery Court are equally authentic, although Dickens provides only those details that support his point.
M. KUMARESAN, I MA ENGLISH
Bharthiar University
good attempt karthi
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