Double Perspective in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House

Abstract

It was between 1852 and 1853 when Dickens' Bleak House, his ninth and second-longest work, was first published. The novel was initially published in monthly installments, with numerous chapters in each, as indicated above. Esther Summerson, the protagonist of Dickens's novel Bleak House, is the sole female narrator in the author's whole body of work. Esther and an omniscient third-person narrator share the story in the past tense. "Esther's Narration" and an omniscient present tense narrative make up the two sections of Bleak House. Bleak House has two narrative modes: The retroactive first-person narrative of Esther Summerson and the narrated third-person narrative in the present tense. Despite the fact that they are aware of one other, their distinctions are immediately noticeable. Unlike the distant, impersonal recorder who glides through the novel's early pages with an ironic deftness, Esther is fastidious, domestic, coy, less linguistically adept, and essentially personal in her approach to her work. The current paper will address the double perspective in Charles Dickens's Bleak House.