Context

Question 1

What type different types of contexts?

Answer 1

There is social, political and literacy/ cultural.

Question 2

What type of context is the Laocoon?

Answer 2

The type of context is literacy or cultural.

Question 3

How is the laocoon linked to christmas carol?

Answer 3

It was the stature which was added to the British museum, which was based of a novel written in 1766. The stature is the part where Laocoon and his sons were getting killed by the serpents. Scrooge sock were described as long and serpents like. Dicken even make Scrooge say “ making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings.” Slave 5.

Question 4

social:
Chirstmas
Apperances
culture:
Scrooge books
hamlet

Answer 4

Polital:
Poor law 
workhouse 
Thomas Malthus 
Charles Causley

Question 5

What type of context is this quote is hinting at:
`The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?’
Slave 1.

Answer 5

It would represent the political context.

Question 6

How is `The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?’ (Slave 1) is part of the political context?

Answer 6

This a requence to Thomas Carlyle speech about what the country should do about the poor people in country by saying “ Are there no treadmills, Gibbets; even hospitals,poor values, new poor law?” This represents Scrooge mindset and others rich men in the Victorian Era thought at the time, it was written.

Question 7

What was the poor law?

Answer 7

In 1834, the Poor Law Amendment Act was created because it to stop the cost of looking after the poor because it was costing government to much money. If people wanted money, they had to go a workhouse were work for 12 houses to get paid.