Christmas carol: Key Themes- Poverty (info & quotes.) Flashcards
What does dickens illustrates from the begging of the novella?
Contrast between rich and the poor.
What doesn’t dickens masks?
The harsh reality of the effects of poverty- describes all the facets of life.
What does dickens use tiny Tim to serve as?
Catalyst for Scrooge’s transformation.
Why does dickens employ humour?
Make miserly behaviour seem absurd.
What is an example of where we see humour used to make miserly behaviour seem absurd?
Scrooge’s interactions with the charity workers in stave 1 are laughable, yet this epitomised the attitudes of wealth, right wing victorians.
What doesn’t dickens do to the poor people and why?
Vilify the poor.
Sympathetic observer highlighting their plight to readers.
key quote: 1- s1.
‘many can’t go there (the workhouse); and many would rather die.’ (charity worker.)
key quote: 2- s3.
they (cratchits) were not well dressed….their clothes were scanty; peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker’s.
key quote: 3- s4.
the ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched.
key quote: 4 -s4.
the quatre reeked with crime, with filth, and misery.
key quote: 5- s4.
alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets.
