Context

• Dickens Father went to a detours prisión when Charles was…?

  Charles was 12, meaning Charles was sent to work at 12
• Dickens personally saw/experienced what it was like to be put to work a at young age who did he write about in the book?

  Ignorance and want- dickens emphasised sized with the poor
• What law was created in 1834?

  The new poor law
• What was the new poor law?


  A law that was placed that state If You was poor/unable to look after yourself, the government can help you as long as you was willing to work for free in a workhouse

  -provides accommodation-bad conditions-factory floor
• How did dickens see this law?


  Dickens saw the law as a punishment to the poor for their positions, and he was very critical of it
• who was Thomas Malthus?


  he came up with a fairly harsh theory "overpopulations is one of the reasons why theres lots of poverty in Victorian England" and " disease are a good thing to killoff a number of the poor and reduce overpopulation"
• How did dickens think of this theory?

  he was very critical of it as he saw it as insensitive it was almost like saying " the poor deserved to die" because of being poor
• who did dickens use to refer to the theory?


  dickens uses scrooge to refer to the "surplus population" as a reference to Thomas Malthus.
• what revolution was going on during the time dicken wrote the novella?

  the industrial revolution
• what did the industrial revolution bring?


  it brought lots of progress to macheines + factories
• was dickens critical of the industrial reolution?

  he was highly critical of the fact that the industrial revolution created an even worse social divide