【正确答案】正确答案：Bleak House is chiefly aimed at the abuse of the Chancery courts with its interminable delays and huge costs. The novel is not merely an attack on the Chancery courts, but also fierce satiric thrusts at the whole political system in England, particularly at the parliamentary system. The author shows that legal procedure, like other social and political apparatuses, is the source of profit for the few and the cause of misfortune for the many. Aside from such satires on the law courts and on the parliamentary system, the novel contains an intricate story of an aristocratic woman Lady Dedlock. And through the story the terrible inside of this aristocratic family is also exposed to view, which constitutes a penetrating satire on the aristocratic families whose parasitic existence is described with much contempt by the author. So in this novel there is a distinct note of bitterness and the novel shows the author"s loss of hope for the English society of his age.