Christmas Carol context

Question 1

Industrial revolution

Answer 1

Immense change 1760-1840
Changed London from rural state to industrial state of factories and machinery

Question 2

What was Britain see as

Answer 2

Britains ‘progressive era’ as Britain was seen as pinnacle of excellence and a symbol of progression. Britain gaining domestic and foreign power

Question 3

Class divide

Answer 3

Industrial revolution meant class divide was exacerbated with lower class being subject to dangerous and dehumanising conditions

Question 4

Dickens criticism

Answer 4

Dickens is critical of the industrial revolution and the overzealousness (obsession) of money that was a byproduct of the revolution – he was particularly scathing of the idea of Britain being the pinnacle of excellence when it neglected the most vulnerable

Question 5

Scrooges treatment of bob crochet is a microcosm , treatment of upper class to lower

Answer 5

Critic GK Chesterton characterised dickens as the “spokesman of the poor”

Question 6

Why was Christmas Carol written

Answer 6

A Christmas Carol was written by Dickens in response to the report of children employment commission which covers the dehumanising and exploited conditions children were subjective in Victorian era

Question 7

Christmas Carol is allegory (deeper meaning)

Answer 7

Tiny Tim plays a fundamental role in the transformation of Scrooge as the relationship could parallel the allegory of the upper classes exploitation of the lower class

Question 8

How was cc og written

Answer 8

Dickens first for a pamphlet to transfer awareness about the plight of the pool. He then turned it into a novella as he was aware that this fictional tails with galvanise more support for the poor as it would fit a larger readership