Bleak House

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Bleak House
Bleak House Losing Ones Place Displacement
and Domesticity By Kevin McLaughlin
Presenter Roy Chan
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Key Vocabularies/Terms

• Theme Home
• Displacement
• Domesticity
• Self Estranged Subject
• Veil
• Phenomenology

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Home in Bleak House

• A social form
• A source of order
• Esther Summerson is
• both homeless and a
• woman. She is displaced
• from her actual parents,
• and tries to figure that out
• at John Jarndyce home

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Domesticity vs. Displacement

• Domesticity - The quality or state of being
  domestic, domestic character home or family
  life devotion to home homeliness.
• A source of order

• Displacement the removal of a thing from its
  place putting out of place shifting,
  dislocation.
• The removal of someone or something by someone or
  something else that takes their place

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Self-Estranged Subject

• The recognition of oneself as different or
  strange.

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Veil

• To cover the person with, or as with, a veil to
  conceal or hide the face by means of a veil to
  enveil.

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Georg Hegels Philosophy

• Phenomenology an approach to philosophy that
  begins with an exploration of phenomena (a
  conscious experience)
• Self-estranged Subject vs. Self-Estranged
  Spirit