Bleak House Essay

Bleak House is written by Charles Dickens in 1852. Written over a two-year period in twenty installments. Dickens uses Bleak House to describe his dislike of the Court of Chancery and the effects on characters from different backgrounds. Chancery court is inheritance court which handles the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case when a series of conflicting wills are presented to the court. 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 a point of view, dictions styles, imagery, and symbolism Dickens provides background into the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case.
The first two chapters of installment one is written

“On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their fathers, who made a fortune by it, ought to be — as are they not? — ranged in a line, in a long matted well (but you might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar’s red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters’ reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them.”(Page ) Dickens describes the long line of lawyers surrounding red cloth tables with legal reference books laying on them. “…fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained-glass windows lose their colour and admit no light of day into the place; well may the uninitiated from the streets, who peep in through the glass panes in the door, be deterred from entrance by its owlish aspect and by the drawl, languidly echoing to the roof from the padded dais where the Lord High Chancellor looks into the lantern that has no light in it and where the attendant wigs are all stuck in a fog-bank!” (Dickens, Page 15) Dickens describes the look of the courthouse, as an old building, which exposes Dickens belief that the court is outdated and