context dickens

• dickens dad went to debtors prison so he had to work in a factory at a young age so he has experience and empathized for poor represents scrooge
• industrial revolution and poor law act showed no emotions for poor people and dickens was critical about this from quote "no workhouses" mocking the act and uses scrooge for harsh victorian beliefs
• thomas malthus made a theory how if people are sick its good as decreases population
• victorians were religious so dickens used this novella as a way to say god will forgive u