a christmas carol analysis
- Created by: Monaiclarke
- Created on: 31-03-19 17:11
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- analysis
- scrooge
- a beginning seen as villan
- doesn't give to charity to begin with
- doesn't want to put coal on the fire
- doesn't want to spend Christmas with his neohew
- presents scrooge like this at the beginning to make us aware
- uses long sentences describing scrooge as things such as "as solitary as an oyster to over whelm us with a negative impression
- overall bad character to begin with to make end transformation more dramatic
- "should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart"
- gives funniest lines to scrooge so the reader is drawn to him and likes him in some way to care about his transformation
- his funny lines keep him likeable towards beginning of text
- jacob marley
- "shun the path i tread"
- not just targeting scrooge but everyone else like him
- context
- wrote towards end of industrial revolution
- industrial revolution had positive outcomes as the countries economics raised
- dickens was fascinated by the industrial revolution but not by the inequality crated in society
- people believed that poor people were lazy so helping would encourage them
- sent them to workhouses to discourage people from seeking help as it was painful work
- people believed that poor people were lazy so helping would encourage them
- Thomas Malthus
- cautioned against helping hungry people because it would "lead to an impossible to manage population size"
- "surplus population" inspired by him
- john forster
- believed had a message for everyone
- "selfish man to rid himself of selfishness; the just man to make himself generous; and the good-natured man to enlarge the sphere of his good nature"
- believed had a message for everyone
- scrooge
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