A Christmas Carol-Context
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- A Christmas Carol Context
- Victorian London
- Population growth went from 1 million in 1800 to 7 million in the 1900.
- London transformed into the biggest city in the world
- Poor lived in unsanitary conditions
- Great Reform Bill 1832
- The working class were left unable to vote
- Granted middle-class people to vote
- It was a requirement to own property to be given the vote.
- Poor Law 1834
- Aim was to reduce the cost of people in poverty
- People who weren't able to support themselves were forced into workhouses
- Workhouses
- People who could not feed themselves were forced here
- Here people were made to do hard labour and little food without pay
- Conditions inside were harsher than the conditions outside to deter people from relying on the government for support
- Industrial Revolution
- Marked a shift to powered, machinery and factories and mass production
- Ragged Schools
- Established to give poor children an education
- Dickens supported Ragged Schools as he gave money and time to the movement
- It is said that the children in the Ragged Schools were the inspirations of 'Ignorance' and 'Want'
- Christmas
- Christmas in these times was not widely celebrated
- Dickens' vivid descriptions and feasts became an important modern-day traditions
- Religion
- England was Christian
- Christian messages are seen throughout the novella
- Victorian London
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