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The story explains the sound of footsteps on the terrace, the footsteps of a Lady Dedlock of the 17th century who was crippled by her Cavalier husband when she opposed him and aided the Roundheads. She vowed to walk the terrace until the pride of the house was humbled. At the heart of the fog, the Court of Chancery is entangled in the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case, a dispute over a will that has dragged on for several generations. (2) Lady Dedlock is bored to death during the rainy season at Chesney Wold, her place in Lincolnshire, so she and her husband, Sir Leicester Dedlock, a baronet 20 years her senior, come up to London.
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(50) After the birth of Caddy’s sickly baby, Esther nurses Caddy through an illness. Prince, Mr. Turveydrop, and Woodcourt are frequent visitors to the sickroom. Esther tells Caddy and Ada of her agreement to marry Jarndyce. After Caddy’s recovery, Esther returns home and feels a “shade” between herself and Ada. (51) Ada confesses to Esther that she and Richard have married.
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He was short, cadaverous, and withered; with his head sunk edgeways between his shoulders, and the breath issuing in visible smoke from his mouth, as if he were on fire within” (5). With his ominous cat, Lady Jane, he presides over an establishment that is a kind of “counter Chancery.” Nemo (Captain Hawdon) occupies rooms on the middle floor of Krook’s house and Miss Flite the top floor. On the night Krook is to give some of Nemo’s papers to Guppy, the old man spontaneously combusts, taking the documents with him (32). When Krook is discovered to have been Mrs. Smallweed’s brother, the Smallweeds take over his effects and discover the missing Jarndyce will among his papers (33). William Guppy’s protective and doting mother, “an old lady in a large cap, with rather a red nose and rather an unsteady eye, but smiling all over. Her close little sitting-room was prepared for a visit; and there was a portrait of her son in it” (38).
Tulkinghorn's Chambers
“We draw, draw, draw,” he said, every frame as detailed as animation. The director of fantasy and horror films keeps his collection of books, gory props and mannequins where he can see, and be inspired by, them. “We’ve wanted to work with him,” LACMA director Michael Govan said earlier this year about del Toro to a small group of L.A.
Later, Jarndyce asks him not to accept money from Richard Carstone (61). Skimpole responds by describing Jarndyce in his memoirs as “the Incarnation of Selfishness” (61). Skimpole has several children and grandchildren, including three daughters, Arethusa, Laura, and Kitty, whom he characterizes as his Beauty daughter, Sentiment daughter, and Comedy daughter (43). Like Jane, Esther passes through a series of symbolic bleak houses. She begins in the house of a cruel aunt who tells her, “It would have been far better . That you had never been born” (3) and teaches her to use “submission, self-denial, [and] diligent work” as ways to compensate for her guilty presence.
To correct her “feudal” training at Chesney Wold, he has her reeducated in Germany. The name of Esther Summerson’s stern nurse who cares for Esther after Miss Barbary dies. She later reappears as the wife of the Reverend Mr. Chadband. Jarndyce finds “a neat little furnished lodging in a quiet old house” for Richard Carstone here (18). A block of run-down houses in Somer s Town where the Dickens family lived 1827.
He already had taken a shot at law-courts and that side of the legal profession in his 1837 novel The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club or The Pickwick Papers. Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Honoria live on his estate at Chesney Wold. While listening to the reading by Mr Tulkinghorn, the family solicitor, of an affidavit, she recognises the handwriting on the copy.
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Tulkinghorn represents the darkness at the heart of Bleak House. A night creature who resembles a crow, he moves silently between London and Chesney Wold. He reveals nothing of himself and expresses no feelings toward anyone. He is mechanical and misogynistic, storing secrets in locked boxes in his office. He collects secrets, particularly those of women, as a way to power, a power that turns people into objects and brings death.
Chesney Wold
Bart’s twin sister, who keeps house in the Smallweed establishment and reiterates the characteristics of the family. “Judy never owned a doll, never heard of Cinderella, never played at any game. She once or twice fell into children’s company when she was about ten years old, but the children couldn’t get along with Judy, and Judy couldn’t get on with them. Krook’s controversial role in the novel, especially his death, was criticized by many Victorian readers, most notably George Henry Lewes, who challenged it as unrealistic and unscientific.
Rather than using a straightforward dramatic narrative, the plot is built in layers so that the viewer learns about the characters and their lives in small doses. It really isn’t until about the fourth episode that the miniseries begins to build momentum. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Richard Carstone is a possible heir in the Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce lawsuit. He and his cousin, Ada Clare, are wards of John Jarndyce.
The Rouncewell family represents the changes that the Industrial Revolution brought to Britain in the late 18th and early 19th century. A spot in Symond’s Inn off Chancer y Lane where Mr. Snagsby “loved to lounge about of a Sunday afternoon” (10). Resident of the neighborhood around Sol’s Arms who, with her neighbor Mrs. Piper, takes a keen interest in the mysterious events at Krook’s house. In Mrs. Pardiggle, Dickens attacked another form of false philanthropy, that of the Tractarians or Puseyites (after the Reverend Edward Pusey), a High Church movement that sought to restore Catholic doctrines to the Anglican church.
One such subplot is the hard life and happy, though difficult, marriage of Caddy Jellyby and Prince Turveydrop. Another plot focuses on George Rouncewell's rediscovery of his family, and his reunion with his mother and brother. Mr. del Toro, 51, doesn’t live here, or in Bleak House 2 next door; his wife and daughters find them too scary, so they live nearby, in an un-Frankensteined home. But for him, these places are a refuge, and when his family isn’t around, he digs in.
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