Fog and Mud as Symbols

From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Fog and mud pervade the novel as symbols of legal obscurity, moral confusion, and the primordial chaos that institutions perpetuate rather than dispel.
Chapter 1
Fog everywhere... Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners... The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest... near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation: Temple Bar.
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