Christmas Carol - Context Vocabulary Flashcards
The traditional/ typical idea of a concept, Scrooge at the beginning is an archetypal villain.
Archetype
Laws prohibiting leisure on Sundays.
Blue Laws
During the Victorian era the word ‘bob’ was often used as a slang word for ‘shilling’.
Bob
Relief derived from releasing repressed emotions.
Catharsis
An economic system based on private ownership.
Capitalism
Similar to an accountant’s office.
Counting house
Synonymous with jealousy.
Covetous
A prison someone goes to when they owe money, Dickens father spent some time there.
Debtors Prison
Someone who breaks social norms and values.
Deviant
An expression of distaste.
Humbug
This was when the means of production of Britain switched from agriculture to industry.
Industrial Revolution
Thomas Malthus was an economist in Victorian times and believed that London was overpopulated and so poverty would be inevitable as food supplies and housing would not be enough to sustain the growing city population.
Malthusian Economics
A person who dislikes other people.
Misanthropic
Awareness of the principles of right and wrong conduct.
Moral
Cut off from society.
Ostracised
Someone who reports on governmental issues, Dickens was a parliamentary judge which may be why he was so socially aware.
Parliamentary Journalist
An act of helping those less well off than yourself, especially involving donations of money.
Philanthropy
A Victorian science which studied bumps on the skull to predict mental traits, which has now been disproved and is regarded as pseudoscience (fake science)
Phrenology
This is a Medieval Christian belief which is a prison, a sort of limbo between hell and life, in which you are given another chance and supposed to be made ready for Heaven. Marley’s Ghost lives in the “incessant torture”.
Purgatory
Schools which provided basic education and provided for children who lived in poverty, Dickens was a contributor of these.
Ragged Schools
A religious belief that it is a sin to work on Sunday as it is the Lord’s day.
Sabbatarianism
An economic system based on shared ownership.
Socialism
A transformation from one thing to another.
Transmorphism
This was a means of production in which was used to produce flour as the workers would walk the wheel.
Treadmill
These were apart of the Gilbert Act which allowed parishes to join together to become responsible for the workhouses.
Union workhouses
A system of welfare which introduced workhouses.
1834 Poor Law
Children have to be 9 years old to work and had to have basic education.
1833 Factory Act on Child Labour
