IGNORANCE AND WANT

• "yellow"

  • colour could imply that children are physically sick and malnourished because of the neglection of society and obliviousness of individuals to social justice
  • connotes sickness mirroring how the upper class believed that poverty was almost alike to a contagious illness or sickness
• "scowling" "wolfish"

  • feral and animalistic portrayal of the children - poverty dehumanises individuals, stripping them of their humanity and reducing them to less than an animalisitic state of being
  • animalistic dehumanising portrayal could be an attack on the rich's dehumanising treatment of the lower classes
• ALLEGORICAL CHARACTERS

  Allegorical characters aim to highlight the unjustified abuse on innocent children as a result of poverty. Dickens uses a plethora of adjectives to describe them.