Key Words

• Miserly – hoards money and does not spend it
• Misanthropic – dislike of others
• Avaricious – greedy
• Motif – a reoccurring image or idea
• Jovial – happy
• Antithesis – total opposite
• Industrial Revolution – the change during the Victorian period from people being employed in factories in farming
• Disparity – inequality
• Capitalism – where businesses are operated solely for profit. This system was brought in by industrialisation and led to wealth disparity.
• Emblematic – representing something
• Didactic – teaches a lesson
• Munificent - generous
• Congenial - friendly
• Impoverished - poor
• Perpetuate – carry on
• Ominous - giving the impression something bad will happen
• Cyclical structure – when a text starts and ends in the same way