Bleak House By Charles Dickens

Some time after the regency period, a time in London where poetry ruled and etiquette defined the English population, came a period called “The Victorian period”. This period formally began with the coronation of Victoria in 1837. This time was the era of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities, and most importantly, it was the era of national self confidence. Immediately, Queen Victoria was mainly focused on ruling her kingdom after it was governed by Parliament for 36 years. At that same time he writing English population had some changes going on. As a result, Victorian literature came to be. This literary movement mainly focused on England’s daily life, it had a moral purpose. In addition, its ideals were based on justice, truth, and

Throughout his writing he represents the main morality of Victorian literature. Dickens was a very realistic author; he focused much on what was going on outside of his pages, yet he portrayed it in a unique and maybe even poetic way. One of his major novels is “Bleak house”. This novel focuses on the life of Esther Summerson, a woman raised as an orphan who had no knowledge of her parent’s existence. Formerly, to any of us, a birthday is a reason to celebrate another year of life, but not to Esther. In fact, her aunt, Miss Barbary, made sure to always let Esther how she was her mother’s biggest disgrace, to make things worse, Esther did not know that Miss Barbary was her aunt and sadly never got the chance to confront her while she was still living. Afterwards, Esther was taken in custody by the owner of the bleak house, John Jarndyce. Additionally, he took custody of two of her cousins, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare. Next, Esther spends time living in bleak house and casually met her mother at church one day. As a matter of fact, they spoke and neither of them recognized who they were to each other after a while. Lady Dedlock was Esther’s mother, but she did not know about her daughters’ existence until after they met at church. She had thought that Esther, her child, was dead. This is because she was the child of a Captain, Captain Hawdown, the man whom she was with before marrying. Her former husband, Sir Leicester did not know of this child and Lady Dedlock surely did not want him to know. Normally, they were both happy to have found each other, but Lady Dedlock told Esther that even though they are reunited, she could not speak of the relationship they shared. After this the novel’s plots add up, changing from secondary characters and so on. Some people die, others disappear (Lady Dedlock for example), and others such as