A Christmas Carol Ignorance and Want analysis
Not quite finished but still has several detailed points.
- Created by: EllieBat
- Created on: 06-04-18 15:42
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- Ignorance and Want
- Under the cloak of the ghost of Christmas present
- Shows how ignorance, want and what they symbolise are hidden from society and forgotten.
- Reinforces that the problem is a present thing and needs dealing with.
- Contrasts with how the ghost of Christmas present is always shown with plentiful amounts of everything.
- Portrays the contrast and inequality in society.
- They are children.
- "Children" of the unfair society and they are what society has created.
- "Spirit! are they yours?" "They are Man's,"
- Makes the imagery created more dramatic and impactful as children usually have connotations with innocence and purity.
- Could actually represent actual poor children at the time. Many children looked and lived like they did.
- "Children" of the unfair society and they are what society has created.
- Dickens believes ignorance is the biggest problem and is worse then greed.
- "But most of all beware this boy, for on his brow, I see that written which is Doom."
- Unless people become aware of the problems and become educated, bad things will happen.
- "But most of all beware this boy, for on his brow, I see that written which is Doom."
- Under the cloak of the ghost of Christmas present
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