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11 Cards in this Set
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What quote is used as evidence for scrooges apathy towards the poor? |
"If they would rather die they durst do it and decrease the surplus population". |
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Why does Belle leave Scrooge? |
Belle explains that Scrooge lives in "fear of poverty" and is engrossed by "the master-passion, Gain". "Beyond the sordid reproach of poverty" Scrooge remarks that "there is nothing so hard as poverty". |
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How does Dickens expose the unfair treatment of the poor? |
Dickens says that the phantoms in Stave 1 could be "guilty governments"-this could be Dickens criticism of the poor law. |
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How does Dickens expose Sabbatarianism? |
The Ghost of Christmas Present is made to condemn the "bigotry, and selfishness" of those who supported Sabbatarianism. |
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How does Dickens personify the poor? |
Ignorance is said by the Ghost to be the "Doom" of society. Society must address his lack of education. Both Ignorance and Want are "horrible" monsters. |
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How can Dickens message be found in the words of Marley? |
Marley says his true "business" was "common welfare" of Mankind, of "charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence". |
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What language is used to describe the Cratchitts? |
Their clothes are threadbare, but they make an effort-Belinda and Mrs Cratchitt are "brave in ribbons" and Peter feels "gallantly attired" in his handed down "shirt collar". |
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How is the Cratchitts dinner described? |
"Eked out" "Small". |
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What are the glimpses of the seedier side of poverty? |
The streets where the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge are "foul and narrow" and the alleys are "like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt". And people who gathered their were "half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly..." |
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What are Dickens other definitions of being rich and poor? |
Dickens believes that one can be poor by money but emotionally rich. The Cratchitts are portrayed as an unrealistically perfect family who don't need money to make them emotionally rich. "Scrooges wealth is of no use to him". |
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How does Fred emphasise Dickens second definition of poverty? |
Fred says that although "Christmas never put... a scrap of gold or silver into my pocket...It has done me good". |
