1. The Effect of Social Perspective on Satirical Targets and Agendas
Jordy Patterson

2. Critical landscape W.M Thackeray – Vanity Fair
Charles Dickens – Bleak House

3. In their analysis of the Victorian serial, The Victorian Serial, Linda Hughes and Michael Lund express that the serial format, primarily novels that are serially published, were reflections (the people and the philosophies) of Victorian society.
As for the content of Victorian serial novels, Hughes and Lund suggest that “the serial was attuned to the assumptions of its readers” (Hughes 4). The structure of the Victorian serial novels reflected the philosophy of Victorian society, and the content within Victorian serials mirrored its hopes and experiences.
Hughes and Lund

4. W. M.Thackeray's Vanity Fair and Charles Dickens' Bleak House are both satirical serial novels that assess the moral state of English society. The two authors share a similar narrative intention which is to note a deficiency in the society in which they live; however, the targets and modes of satirization implemented by Thackeray and Dickens are fundamentally different.
Set Up for Comparison

5. Individual Characteristics of Satrization - Thackeray
Within Thackeray's novel the Manager of the Performance describes society's failures, and addresses them with almost malicious scrutiny and unrestrained questioning. The impetus for the use of such bluntness is Thackeray's disdain for the snobbish tendencies of social elites whom, in his eyes, are deserving of ridicule. Despite Thackeray's use of humor, there is a serious underlying concern for the current moral condition of his society. This rather bleak outlook of English society is also reflected in both the title and subtitle of the work.
Individual Characteristics of Satrization - Thackeray

6. Individual Characteristics of Satrization - Dickens
Although Dickens takes a comparatively more subtle approach in his criticism, his satirization of English society does not lack a certain tone of condemnation. In his novel, Bleak House, he is concerned with the upper class (as it relates to the system), as is Vanity Fair, but is focused on the class's relation to those beneath it. Dickens speaks towards practical social reform and equality. This can most easily be seen in the how his character Jo lives and is treated. Jo lives in obscurity and deplorable conditions with no one to care for him or help.
Other points to include:
condemnation of social inequality
chancery (the elite holding everyone hostage)
willingness to ignore deplorable conditions
Individual Characteristics of Satrization - Dickens

7. Satirical Targets Thackeray Dickens
Thackeray targets a rather specific portion of the English population in his satirization: the social elites.
Thackeray's narrator talks about the characters
Dickens also takes note of social elites, but his approach to satirization comes across as being more holistic because it is dealing with society as a whole (how all the pieces should fit together).
Dickens’ narrator doesn't directly talk about the characters, but characterizes them through action and events.
Satirical Targets

8. The differences in target and mode of satirization can be explained by the authors’ social perspectives.
Thackeray was in constant observation of the social elites.
Dickens went out in the streets and saw the common experience.
So What?

9. Thesis Considerations Going Forward
Explicity identify the “targets” and “modes” spoken of for each author (it is kind of vague right now)
Suggestions?
Thesis Considerations Going Forward