christmas carol: key themes- social injustice (info & quotes.)

Question 1

what are we reminded of throughout the novella?

Answer 1

disparity between rich and the poor.

Question 2

what is an example of where we see a sense of injustice prevail?

Answer 2

consider the long hours worked by cratchit, who still can’t provide adequately for his family.

Question 3

by using who does dickens horrify us, what are they and who do they embody?

Answer 3

ignorance and want.
shocking products of of social injustice.
embody the underclass, and their anger indicates fury at the government, felt by the poor.

Question 4

key quote: 1- s1.

Answer 4

‘i can’t afford to make idle people merry.’ (scrooge.)

Question 5

key quote: 2- s1.

Answer 5

‘the treadmill and the poor law are in full vigour then?’ (scrooge.)

Question 6

key quote: 3- s3.

Answer 6

think of that! bob had but fifteen ‘bob’ a week himself.

Question 7

key quote: 4- s3.

Answer 7

‘there will be some upon this earth of yours…who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are strange to us and all our kith and kin.’ (ghost of christmas present.)

Question 8

key quote: 5- s3.

Answer 8

they were a boy and a girl. yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish.

Question 9

key quote: 6- s3.

Answer 9

‘this boy is ignorance. this girl is want. beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy. (ghost of christmas present.)