Critism Qs/Topics for BH

New Critic

·      Bird Symbolism

·      Character names

·      Description of London/Setting and relation to plot

·      Duty – Esther/Mr. Jarndyce/ Mrs. Jellyby

·      Corruption ie Tulkinghorn blackmail, Court

Reader Response

·      My Lady Dedlock  - idea who is talking to 3^rd person narrator

·      Why would Dickens choose Esther as a narrator

·      How does Bleak House have different meanings from when it was written to now