Ignorance and Want

    Cards (8)

    • “ Scowling, wolfish
    • “ a boy and a girl
    • Wretched, frightful, hideous, miserable
    • “ stale and shrivelled hand like that of age
    • scowling and wolfish “

      ” wolfish “ = anthropomorphism , has animalistic qualities due to how inhumane the poor has been treated by society
      society puts responsibility on secondary institutions such as the workhouses
      adjectives evokes sympathy due to the reckless state of the innocent children
    • “ a boy and a girl “

      the boy is ignorance the girl is want
      biblical allusion to Adam and Eve
      Eves temptation that causes mankind to be punished
      ignorance links to Dickens issue with the ignorance of the wealthy
      Dickens uses children who are innocent to show the harm of society
      Presented in an impersonal way to show that hat they are symbolic of the problems in society
    • “ wretched, frightful, hideous, miserable “
      semantic field of horror
      Dickens is warning about the disease of ignorance and consequences if not addressed
      expresses Dickens view of the pitiful effects of poverty on vulnerable people
    • stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age “

      conveys endless destructive impacts of poverty
      most innocent affected by upper class
      poverty is never ending
      symbolises harsh realities of poverty
      children forced to endure hardship
      metaphor
      shock the reader