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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Charles Dickens' Bleak House (1852-53) is one of the most complicated novels of the nineteenth century. In an amazing feat of narrative planning, all of the novel's several dozen characters turn out to be somehow integral to the plot. Bleak House features two narrators: on the one hand, the protagonist, Esther Summerson, who is emotionally damaged, determinedly cheerful, and devoted to duty; on the other, an anonymous narrator, who is near-omniscient (he sees all but rarely has access to anyone's thoughts), satirical, and frequently appalled by the human race. While both halves of the novel are bleak--appropriately enough--Esther is ultimately optimistic about human nature in a way that her counterpart most decidedly is not. In its satirical moments, the novel crusades against the Court of Chancery's labyrinthine red tape and Victorian philanthropists' self-serving hypocrisy. |
