A Study of Symbolism in Dickens' Bleak House

Abstract

The contemporary malpractice of law and misery of the people during the Mid-Victorian England is recurrent issue in Charles Dickens Bleak House. The English law that is to make business for itself, law's delay, high costs and confusion, the law and its effect upon its victims are not merely random presentation but the meaningful events. Dickens symbolically expresses all the contemporary legal institutions which have gone wrong and he has presented the Chancery Court as a modern critical practice of Victorian law in the novel. So, Charles Dickens has tried to present crucial questions to Mid-Victorian law about high cost and fees, which have presented through the Chancery Court and its ongoing system of delaying discernment which is impossible to reform.