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• Social injustice line of argument

  To highlight how imbalances of power in society could be altered if those with wealth paid careful attention to the suffering of the poor.
• Cratchit family STAVE 3

  'Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding'

  
  

  • 'at all' -> emphasis of poverty
  • Victorian views -> people should be grateful for what they have
  • Literacy rate was low so many who read his books did not experience his struggles
  • Christmas spirit -> 'small pudding;
• Cratchit family STAVE 5

  'Tiny tim, who did not die, he was a second father'

  • shift in Scrooge's character
  • metaphor of 'second father' -> religious views of Christians
  • Bob cratchits effort
• Ignorance and Want STAVE 3


  'yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish'

  • list of adjectives -> emphasis on danger and dehumanisation
  • irony -> vulnerable children -> Scrooge's lack of knowledge
• ignorance and want STAVE 3


  'on his brow (ignorance) I see written Doom'

  • society is 'doomed' -> social injustice
  • religious connotations -> threat to victorian society
  • original sin
• Fred STAVE 1


  'his eyes sparkled'

  • motif of light
  • 'eyes' different perspective to life
  • link to 'solitary as an oyster' -> juxtaposition of light and dark
• Fred STAVE 1


  'it never put a scarp of gold or silver'

  • Scrooge is consumed by money -> greed
  • repitition for gold