Social injustice
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- Created on: 17-03-19 10:05
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- Scrooge refuses to give money when asked for a donation for the 'Poor and destitute' of society
- Social Injustice
- Ignorance and Want
- Not happy and joyous as children ought to be. Ghost tells Scrooge that the children are the responsibility of all mankind
- a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds
- Thieves dividing up Scrooge's belongings shows how Scrooge's death is received
- "Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did."
- Thieves comment on how miserly he had been in life. We appreciate the failings of only thinking of yourself.
- "Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did."
- Dickens felt strongly that Victorian society ignored the poverty of its underclass
- The Poor Law was amended in 1834 to reduce the cost of helping the poor
- rich enjoyed comfort and feasting at Christmas
- children forced to live in dreadful conditions in workhouses
- Ignorance and Want
- Social Injustice
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