Paper Summary:

This paper considers Charles Dickens' novel "Bleak House" in reference to other works. The paper highlights the major conflict in the novel, which involves a lawsuit. Many quotes are used to support the paper's comparisons and contrasts. The paper also analyzes various symbols that appear in "Bleak House." Finally, the paper evaluates women's roles in Victorian society, giving a general history of those roles and citing examples from the novel.

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"In the representation of gender in relation to crime, men are usually those that are acitvely involved in society and the institutions of law, like Mr. Tulkinghorn or Detective Bucket or Krook, who is called " Lord Chancellor " because of his habit to collect a lot of useless things, thus making a mess out of his home, and whose death by " spontaneous combustion" is very significant because it is as if the evil purges itself. Many of the men in the novel are part of the "system " and thus play their part in the crimes."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Blake , William Complete Wrirings ,Oxford University Press , New York , 1972
• Dickens , Charles Bleak House , Penguin Books, London : 1971
• Foucault , Michel Surveiller et Punir , Gallimard , Paris : 1975
• Kennedy , Vallery Challenging Figures :Three of Charles Dickens Marginal Women,www.victorianweb.org
• Holbrook , David Charles Dickens and the Image of Women , New York University Press , New York:1993

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