Racism in the work of Charles Dickens For example, in his novel "Bleak House" Dickens mocks Mrs. Jellyby, who neglects her children for the natives of a fictional African country. The disjunction between Dickens' criticism of slavery and his crude caricatures of other races has also been noted by Patrick Brantlinger in his "A Companion to the Victorian Novel". He cites Dickens' description of an Irish colony in America's Catskill mountains a mess of pigs, pots, and dunghills. Dickens views them as a "racially repellent" group. Jane Smiley writing in the Penguin Lives bio of Dickens writes "we should not interpret him as the kind of left-liberal
Unreliable narrator accurate. The 2015 USA Network series "Mr. Robot" features an unreliable narrator as the main character and also a plot-device. Critics have claimed that Yuri Katsuki, the title character in the Japanese anime series "Yuri on Ice", is an unreliable narrator due to his anxiety. The FX television series "Legion" focuses on the mutant David Haller, who suffers from Schizophrenia. Haller's fractured psyche acts as a plot-device, warping Haller's view of the world. Creator Noah Hawley described Haller as an unreliable narrator. In Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's "", the Joker, who is the villain of the story, reflects on