Christmas Carol Context

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  • Created on: 22-04-17 10:19
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  • Christmas Carol Context
    • Ignorance and Want
      • Allegory
        • Dickens tries to tell society they need to change
      • Ignornace has caused problems in society
        • Rich are greedy and selfish
          • Set at Christmas where they change and decide to give
            • They should be giving all year round
        • Chapter 3 shows lots of food
          • Dickens believes there is enough for everyone if people aren't selfish
      • People don't care about the poor
        • Dickens lived in poverty when his dad went to jail
          • Dickens worked in a blacking factory
        • Child labour
          • Dickens worked in a blacking factory
    • Malthus
      • 'Decrease the surplus popultation'
        • Direct reference to Malthus' theories
      • Poverty was inevitable
      • People don't care about the poor
        • Dickens lived in poverty when his dad went to jail
          • Child labour
        • Poverty
          • Contrasts Scrooge and Bob Cratchit
          • Ignornace has caused problems in society
            • Rich are greedy and selfish
              • Set at Christmas where they change and decide to give
                • They should be giving all year round
            • Chapter 3 shows lots of food
              • Dickens believes there is enough for everyone if people aren't selfish
          • Children were vulnerable and so suffered
            • Tiny TIm
        • Religion
          • DIckens felt good Christains did good deeds
            • People should be kind, generous, charitable
              • Victorian Christian wanted to look Christian and so had a strict moral code
          • Anti-Sabbatarianism
            • Poor could do nothing as everything would be closed on Sundays
              • Most had no ovens and used the bakers to cook
                • Bakers would be closed Sunday

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      aliyeuszx

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      Like the links to the text

      Jannath_Hussain

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      This is very helpful, summarises the context

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