Dickens

• What does Dickens evoke in a Christmas carol?


  sympathy for the poor who were neglected by Victorian society
• Why did Dickens feel so strongly about the poor needing help?


  He grew up poor
• What does Dickens suggest?


  that we all have a duty to be kind to others
• How harsh was Victorian England?


  Prison was appointed for debt and workhouses were for the poor
• what does Dickens suggest about family? 


  That family is a source of comfort and happiness
• What does Dickens use to help Scrooge realise his mistakes? 


  The supernatural
• How does Dickens suggest that family is a source of happiness and comfort? 


  Through the Cratchits who are poor yet happy
• How does Dickens convey the idea that money doesn’t mean happiness? 


  Scrooge is rich but unhappy, not generous and disliked whereas the Cratchits are poor but happy, loving and loyally loved
• Why does Dickens have Scrooge become generous at the end of the novella? 


  To prove to Victorian society that change is possible and worth it.
• Why does Dickens have the spirits show scrooge his lonely future? 


  To show to the rest of society what there future will look like
• Where does Dickens use imagery of coldness for Scrooge before his visitations from the spirits ?


  In the quote “he carried his low temperature with him.”
• Where does Dickens use the imagery of warmth for Fred? 


  “golden sunlight”