A Christmas Carol Themes and Context
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- A Christmas Carol- Key Themes and Context
- Poverty
- Religious Views
- should help the poor
- Christian beliefs on helping others
- many charities run by the church
- everyone is equal under God
- 'love thy neighbour'
- Donations and Philanthropy
- Kindness
- Workhouses and treadmills
- families split up
- poor sanitation
- very little food
- gruel- little nutrition
- bad quality and tasteless
- tried to encourage people to teach value of hard worl
- poverty linked to laziness
- made conditions and work so bad people didn't want to stay
- hard labour
- breaking stones
- splitting rope
- Debtors Prisons
- poor conditions
- Dickens' father went to debtors Prison
- Malthusian Views
- poor will die out naturally due to Darwins theory of evolution/ natural selection
- poor should be ignored
- the issue would resolve itself so no aid should be given to the poor
- poor were lazy
- Dickens disagreed with Malthusian views and wanted to support the poor
- poor will die out naturally due to Darwins theory of evolution/ natural selection
- Religious Views
- Family
- Scrooge
- isolated and lonely
- doesn't associate with his family so is unhappy
- 'he thought that such another creature might have called him father and been a spring time in the haggard winter of his life'
- family is important
- you should care for your family
- regrets not having a family
- Cratchits
- "make do attitude"
- physically poor but rich in love
- "make do attitude"
- Poor
- children often had to work to support their families
- young looked after the old
- physically poor but rich in love
- children often had to work to support their families
- Upper Class
- only associated with each other
- wouldn't marry outside of class
- Scrooge
- Supernatural and life after death
- Marley's Ghost
- everything you do in life is carried forward to the afterlife
- never too late to change
- can save your soul
- religion
- redemption
- Victorian Gothic
- supernatur-al elements
- death or violence
- Graveyards, omens, shadows, terror, visions, inexplicable events, featuring the unknown
- Marley's Ghost
- Christmas
- A religious holiday
- society was very religious
- time for family to come together
- Time of Peace
- fighting ceases
- Ghost of Christmas present has no sword
- Spirit of Giving
- helping the poor
- philanthropy
- charity
- Class divide
- poor
- goose
- Cratchits "I hope one day the children will taste a turkey"
- goose
- rich
- Turkey
- poor
- A religious holiday
- Poverty
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