Tuesday - THEMES

 Here are some, not all, themes to consider for BLEAK HOUSE

Poverty

Reputation 

Class Structure and Lineage

Power and moral principles

Appearances and Identity

Law vs Justice

Duty or Social Responsibility (Philanthrophy)

Family

Passion and Madness 

“Plenty will come in, but none can help. The Lord Chancellor of that Court, true to his title in his last act, has died the death of all Lord Chancellors in all Courts, and of all authorities in all places under all names soever, where false pretences are made, and where injustice is done. Call the death by any name Your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally—inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only—Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.”

 

Analyze the above quote (what does it mean?) and connect it to a major theme in the novel.