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He has period cartoons and illustrations of people cooking in a stew and children eaten as soup. He has drawings of an insane asylum that Dickens toured once. He discovers Lady Deadlock’s secrets and considers exposing her.
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The door swings open and there, surrounded by blood-red walls, is a hellhound with four hooded eyes and gaping fangs. The head of Frankenstein’s monster floats, disembodied and huge, a story above it. Peering at you from the living room, his fingers paging through a book, is the early-20th-century horror novelist H.P. On a Victorian sofa, a demented doll stares down a bronze gargantua, Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie. Stone offers a visitor several historic sketches of this morgue and people viewing bodies there.
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At the inquest the next day at Sol’s Arms, no significant additions are made to the story; the one witness who knew Nemo, Jo, a poor crossing sweeper, is not allowed to testify. (12) In January Sir Leicester and Lady Dedlock return to Chesney Wold. Lady Dedlock arouses the jealousy of Hortense, her French maid, by complimenting the beauty of a local servant girl, Rosa. Assuming her characteristic manner, she apparently listens to the story only to divert herself from the tedium of Chesney Wold.
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Skimpole, Harold
Esther arrives in London and finds herself directed to the court of Chancery by a clerk named Mr. Guppy. Here, she is introduced to her new companion, Ada Clare, and another ward of the court, and Ada’s cousin, Richard Carstone. The court of Chancery is a large, archaic institution which deals explicitly with disputes over property.
On one of her daily walks in the park at Chesney Wold, Esther is confronted by Lady Dedlock, who reveals that she is Esther’s mother and, kneeling before her, asks her forgiveness. Esther is unsettled; walking on the Ghost’s Walk and hearing the ghost’s hollow footsteps, she thinks she is the calamity in the Chesney Wold legend. Gradually she comes to accept her birth and to believe that she was intended to live.
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One of the most talked about events of the era involved a British expedition that became stranded in the Arctic and ate their dead. In “Bleak House,” cannibalism symbolizes the legal system devouring the accused. Dickens often portrayed threatening men as ogres on the verge of chewing up young children, Stone found.
Jarndyce, John
When they bring Jo back, there is a veiled lady in Tulkinghorn’s rooms. At first Jo thinks it is the woman he guided through the streets, but when she removes her gloves he sees that her hands are not so delicate nor her rings so precious as those on the woman who gave him the sovereign. Tulkinghorn and Bucket are pleased to have established that Jo’s woman was a lady disguised as Hortense. Mr. Jarndyce tries to help Richard choose a profession, but Richard struggles to settle on one and sometimes dreams that his fortune will be made when Jarndyce and Jarndyce is resolved. Esther notices that Ada and Richard have fallen in love and, one day, they announce they are engaged. Mr. Jarndyce has many philanthropic friends and, one afternoon, Esther and Ada visit the house of a brickmaker with one of these people and meet two poor women, Jenny and Liz, with whom they strike up a friendship.
A second case study can be found in the United States itself, after the binge of the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. That industrial boom transformed America, but it created poisonous inequalities, social and environmental damage, and gross corruption. Republican Theodore Roosevelt led a “Progressive” movement that reformed politics, business, labor rights, the environment and the political swamp of corruption. Intellectual leaders shared this passion for reform, from Thomas Carlyle to Charles Dickens. It’s apparent that everything in Bleak House has a greater significance to Del Toro. He almost winces while describing the first horror book he ever purchased, back in 1971.
Jarndyce and Jarndyce
He proposes to Esther, suggesting that he can act on her behalf. She rejects him, but she both laughs and cries over the proposal. (6) Then the three young people set out for Bleak House in ST. ALBANS, the home of their guardian. When they arrive, Jarndyce suggests that they meet as old friends even though they have not met before.
They are beneficiaries in one of the wills at issue in Jarndyce and Jarndyce; their guardian is a beneficiary under another will, and the two wills conflict. Richard and Ada soon fall in love, but though Mr Jarndyce does not oppose the match, he stipulates that Richard must first choose a profession. Richard first tries a career in medicine, and Esther meets Allan Woodcourt, a physician, at the house of Richard's tutor. When Richard mentions the prospect of gaining from the resolution of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, John Jarndyce beseeches him never to put faith in what he calls "the family curse". He later switches again and spends the remainder of his funds to buy a commission as a military officer. There are reference libraries for the occult, horror, fairy tales (in a secret room, behind a bookcase), history, Teutonic mythology, anatomy and Gothic romance.
(65) Allan and Esther set out for Chancery on the day the Jarndyce will is to be decided. They are late for the session, and when they arrive, the proceedings are already over. The new will is valid, but all the money has been absorbed in legal costs. Richard, weak, his mouth full of blood, talks of the dream’s being over, of beginning in the world. (54) Bucket reveals the true story of Lady Dedlock to Sir Leicester, advising him to buy Captain Hawdon’s letters, now in Grandfather Smallweed’s possession. Then he apprehends Hortense and charges her with Tulkinghorn’s murder.
Mr. Jarndyce has seen people go mad over Chancery lawsuits and worries that this is now happening to Richard. One day, she confesses to Ada that she and Richard have been married in secret and that she will no longer live with Mr. Jarndyce, but with Richard, though she bears her guardian no ill will and hopes that Richard will soon come around. She asks Mr. Woodcourt, who is back from sea, to visit Richard sometimes and to make sure he is well. A lawyer’s clerk, Mr. William Guppy, tells Lady Dedlock that he has learned that Esther’s name is actually Esther Hawdon and that Nemo’s last name was Hawdon. Lady Dedlock realizes that Esther is her daughter from an affair with Captain Hawdon and that her sister, who had told her that the baby died, had taken Esther and secretly raised her. One day Lady Dedlock encounters Esther and reveals to her that she is her mother.
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