Charles Dicken’s Bleak Houses

If someone applied this remark to anyone else, that person would be considered a nice person who does things for others, but not when applied to Ms. Jellyby. This is one of the ways Charles Dickens shows his disgust of people in Bleak House. Bleak House was written in 1852, in the Victorian time of England. Dickens saw so much wrong with his peers, country, and government that he talked about it in most of his books. Bleak House is one such book, and in it he shows that there are different types of communities, some which work and become representative of Bleak House, and others that fail as such. The communities are families, most of which fail, but some make it through relatively unscathed, and institutions that fail, not just individuals, but society.

As quoted above, one of the main failures shown in Bleak House is the failure of families. In Jellyby’s case, she is a woman who is supposed

There are families that make it through Bleak House as a whole, families that help and care for one another. The first is the books namesake, Bleak House. John runs it, and at the beginning has Esther, Ada, and Richard to look after. Towards the end of the book though, Richard leaves, along with Ada, but Charley comes in. The house still has an open invitation for Richard and Ada however, so it has not abandoned them. Esther even tries to take Jo in, but he didn’t want to stay. It goes to show that these people care for one another unlike most of the other families in Bleak House. Although not quite a family, but rather a group of friends, is Mr. George and Phil. George has taken in Phil, a man with minor mental disorders. He treats Phil in a very humane and nice way. George even takes in Jo when he is dying of smallpox, and tries to comfort him the best he can. “We are naturally in the vagabond way here… You are welcome to a quiet corner of it for the boy, if the same would meet your views” (XLVII, 31-34). It shows that he goes to lengths to convince Allen that he and Phil have something in common with Jo, therefore Jo is welcome. To a smaller degree, the Bagnet’s are a part of George’s family, though he doesn’t live with them. George cares deeply for them, and they in turn care a great deal for George, and are willing to go out of their way to help him, and do things like reuniting him with his mother.

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