Charles Dickens's 'Dombey and Son'

come in my son..." Dr. Blimber, in Paul's eyes, was kind and affectionate and, above all, paternal towards him. The repetition lends itself to the ticking watch both at the birth scene and in Dr. Blimber's office suggesting the monotony of the founding of a commercial partnership or perhaps education which, up until the 1850s and the beginning of Arnold's reforms, had been virtually restricted to the upper-classes and remained notorious for bullying and their ineffectuality.

The next instalment in this series continues with the thematic analysis of Dickens's 'Dombey and Son'.

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