I have chosen to study Bleak House with a focus on social and economic class. It is interesting to read this novel with the perspective and goal of analyzing how social class effects daily life, overall culture, and opportunity for the citizens in London in the 18th century. Personally, I am having a difficult time grasping how London's social class was as a whole, so it is challenging to apply that concept when reading the novel. It is a challenge to understand the complexities and layers of Dickens' Bleakhouse and analyze it with a historical perspective.

For this week’s class we were tasked with analyzing an illustration for a particular Victorian text and looking for research related to the image. Rather than looking at the text itself, our primary focus was strictly on the image. It has been a long time since I have last looked at Goblin Market so I needed to find some information related to the poem to be able to understand the illustration we used. It is important to realize the connection that image, text and context have together because they each influence one another.