Christmas Carol Context

Cards (3)

  • Industrial revolution
    • Lower Class People being subject to dangerous working condition and barley getting paid (4-5 year olds where doing labour)
    • Dickens Crafts scrooge as a greedy capitalist who would let the poor to be exploded he highlights that capitalist will placed with misery
  • Charles Dickens Towards The Poor
    • Dickens is very empathic towards the poor and their suffering as he also grew up poor and was mistreated by the rich
    • He Faught for The poor
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    • Dickens debunks the commonly help stereotype that the poor are lazy through the Cratchits which are hardworking and greatfull
  • 1834 poor law 

    • workhouses were made which the poor where sent to work there which gave food and shelter exchange of work many kids where separated from there family and poor people worked in harsh conditions
    • 145,000 people would die every year
    • Dicken was place in an work house too