Ghost Of Christmas Present

Question 1

Social injustice/poverty?

Answer 1

“Glowing tourch, in shape not unlike plenty’s horn”

• Plenty’s horn in latin is called “cornucopia” symbolic for nourishment and abundance. Saying there is an abundance of resources to be shared. Criticism of Malthusian views which have no regard for the poor

Question 2

Scrooge selfishness?

Answer 2

“The boy is ignorance. The girl is want.”

• “ignorance and want are allegorical characters to aim to highlight the unjustified abuse on innocent children as a result of poverty. It is significant that the ghost of christmas present shows him as this as Dickens uses him as a mouthpeice to criticise the socio- ecenomic poverty that pervaded victorian society

Question 3

Religion?

Answer 3

“Kind,generous,hearty nature”

• Triple adjective shows bibical allusions to trinity in which is the three parts of God. Allusion to show how the ghost is there to bring him back to his religious moral foundations and guide him away from sin