The Victorian Period In Charles Dickens Bleak House

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What exactly is the Victorian Period? First off, the “Victorian Period” was a time in which Great Britain, also known as “England”, was the most powerful and wealthiest nations in the world during its time in 1837. Second off, it is called “Victorian” due to the fact that queen Alexandrina Victoria served as queen for Great Britain and Ireland for 63 years (2nd longest British Monarch), beginning in 1837 by reason of King William IV death. Under the reign of Queen Victoria, Great Britain experienced a sudden expansion in the industry, building railways, bridges, sewers (London underground), and providing power throughout the city. Furthermore, there were advances in science and technology, diverse amounts of inventions, and wealth in the middle …show more content…

It combines romance and realism, and also a murder mystery. In fact, it is the first British novel in which a professional detective is heavily involved. It is told in from the first-person perspective of Esther Summerson, the novel’s heroine, and the other half being told in the present tense (unusual in Victorian fiction) by a third-person narrator. Although, this was a very long novel, Dickens’ achieved the writing style he was in search off. It was a novel of social criticism. During this time, people didn’t have much to do, meaning, that reading was a form of entertainment and time passer for them. Moreover, the story is about the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case in the High Court of Chancery, which has been going for a long time. In Bleak House, a character called Krook, died via spontaneous combustion. George Henry Lewes, a writer, complained (in 1853) that people didn’t just burst into flame just like that. In the book, Krook’s death was investigated and authorities were mentioned on spontaneous combustion to prove that the phenomena really did exist. “Spontaneous combustion was a good literary device to demonstrate that passionate forces can lie within us”, according to Charles Dickens Info. However, the spontaneously combust idea was and is …show more content…

Charlotte has two more sisters, which are also famous poets and novelist as well (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë). Their writing style was greatly influenced and profoundly marked by reason of their mother’s death. Consequently, their first most famous and successful story was “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte. This novel begins with a character named Jane, which was been raised by her cruel wealthy aunt. She was treated very badly in that house; in fact, the only person who treated her with love was the servant. Her wealthy aunt then decides to send her to school which then Jane sees that is also quite depriving due to the cruel school headmaster. She made a friend but soon had died of a typhus epidemic. Afterwards, the school headmaster was fired and that’s when Jane’s life drastically changed. She stayed in school for eight years (six years as a student and 2 years as a teacher). She got a job teaching on a manor called “Thornfield”. Subsequently, her employer was a dark, impassioned man in which Jane was secretly falling in love with, called Rochester. One night, Jane saves Rochester from a fire, which no one exactly knew how it was started. Moreover, one-day Rochester proposes to Jane and she immediately said yes. Once their wedding day arrived, a man cries out that Rochester already had a wife called Bertha. Due to this, the wedding party was taken back to Thornfield where Rochester had to deal with Bertha. Following that, Jane

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