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Chancery in Charles Dickens Bleak House In Charles Dickens Bleak House, Chancery is portrayed as a disease that plagues the Victorian society. Dickens uses the suits and the lawyers of Chancery to display its effects on the whole society.The suits are slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of things (25) that stifle and bedevil those that come in contact with them. In Ms. Flites case, the suit has deteriorated her life. She attends Chancery regularly expecting a judgement that is never to come and yet, she lives a pinched (73) lifestyle, unable to help herself or others. In addition, she cages birds she intends to set free on her judgement day, however, she states, I positively doubt sometimes whether while matters are still perilous I may not one day be found lying stark and senseless here, as I have found so many birds (74). Like Miss Flite, the suit has stagnated Roberts life. Robert, So young and handsome, and in all respects so perfectly the opposite of Miss Flite...is so dreadfully like her in his clouded, eager, and seeking mannerism (592...