... is described by Carlyle as one to who "the four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Roman enigmas to him-, Bleak House notes how it must be strange for a figure like Jo "to see people read and not to have the least idea of all that language ... 1972: 12) Hortense is capable of showing her force, and achieveing her aim, and although Dickens doesn't explore her characeter extensively, one can sense that her angered point of view, but more importantly her action could easily influence those in similar circumstances. Despite their almost inherited disease lower class ... hatred of o...

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... is evident when Joe comes to visit him in London, "Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity " (Dickens 225). He no longer has any desire to see Joe, as it will remind him of his former status as a member of the low class, a source of ... in Victorian England. Dickens uses satirical irony in that he has Magwitch, who is of lower class and criminal, point out the fault that is the criminal justice system. Magwitch notes how he is taking the blame for everything, "It was always me th...

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