Whereas the Chartist is described by Carlyle as one to who "the four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Roman enigmas to him-, Bleak House notes how it must be strange for a figure like Jo "to see people read and not to have the least idea of all that language -to be every scrap of it, stone blind and dumb". ... "Jo and his order" (BH 258) are in may wqys similar to the characters portrayed in A Tale of Two Cities. ... Unlike the two women who are softened, albeit shocked, by the compassion shown by Esther and Ada, the men's hearts have hardened. ...

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