Christmas Carol Context
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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
- Set at Christmas where they change and decide to give
- Chapter 3 shows lots of food
- Dickens believes there is enough for everyone if people aren't selfish
- Rich are greedy and 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
- Dickens lived in poverty when his dad went to jail
- Allegory
- 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
- Dickens lived in poverty when his dad went to jail
- 'Decrease the surplus popultation'
- 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
- Set at Christmas where they change and decide to give
- Chapter 3 shows lots of food
- Dickens believes there is enough for everyone if people aren't selfish
- Rich are greedy and 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
- People should be kind, generous, charitable
- 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
- Most had no ovens and used the bakers to cook
- Poor could do nothing as everything would be closed on Sundays
- DIckens felt good Christains did good deeds
- Ignorance and Want
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