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    Cards (5)

    • Charles Dickens 

      Grew up in poverty and worked in a blacking factory
      Novella was written in response to the report of childrens employment commission which covered the dehumanising and exploitative conditions children were subject to in the Victorian era
      therefore the struggles of the crotchets were presented in a compassionate way
      tiny Tim’s death links to the exploitation of children during the era
    • Religion
      Foundation of morality in Victorian era - 7 deadly sins (greed, wrath and pride) to be avoided. Christians believe that God provides individuals with redemption (save from sin) when sin has been confessed.
      Scrooge embodies this
    • Industrial revolution
      Change from farming to factories marked as the progressive era
      Dickens scathing of Britaim being the pinnacle of excellence and progression when it neglects and exploits the lower classes
      Uses Scrooge to critique how progressive society is
    • 1834 poor law

      Introduced the workhouse which were hubs of squalor exploiting the poor and 10 percent people admitted to them would die.
      Dickens shows ignorance of those who enforced laws like this one through Scrooge stage 1
      Cratchits and children of ignorance and want provide a small insight to how the poor were exploited and dehumanised into laws like this
    • Thomas Malthus 

      British economomist believed poverty was inevitable
      Dickens uses scrooge to Emory Malthusian views
      ridiculed by ghost of Christmas present in stave 3 “decrease surplus Population“
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