Martin Chuzzlewit

Several deaths matter to the plot, including Anthony’s death, Tigg Montague’s murder, and children dying during the American episode.

Death and murder are important plot elements, but the available description indicates little graphic depiction of blood or bodily injury.

Characters insult, berate, ridicule, and manipulate one another, but strong profanity and slurs are not defining features.

Victorian moral and religious references may occur, but organized faith and religious practice are not central to the story.

Marriage prospects, courtship, love triangles, dowries, and an abused marriage recur, though selfishness and family conflict dominate.

Threats, cruelty, illness, dangerous travel, criminal schemes, and a disease-filled settlement create sustained peril, though the novel is not primarily horror.

Courtship, marriage, dowries, and unwanted advances appear, but explicit sexual activity, sexual jokes, and sexualized nudity are not prominent.

Mrs Gamp’s heavy drinking is a recurring comic element, while drugs feature in a suspected poisoning plot; neither is presented as a positive model.

Violence includes abuse, threats, criminal schemes, mistreatment, and a murder investigation; it is serious rather than action-centered.