How does Dickens Portray Didactic Themes? Flashcards
How does dickens convey his didactic themes?
1) Social Divide
2) Condemning social issues
3) His portrayal of social responsibility
‘A good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time…where men and women seem by one consent to open up their shut-up hearts freely’
‘Mrs Cratchit kissed him, his daughter kissed him, the two young Cratchit’s kissed him, and he and Peter shook hands. Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence is from God!’
‘Merrier Christmas, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family’
‘Who lay claim to know us, and do their deeds of passion, pride, I’ll-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are strange to us’
‘Decrease the surplus population.’ Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief’
‘This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want, beware of them both…most of all beware of the boy, for on his brow, I see written which is Doom’
‘Mankind was my business; Charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’
‘He hoped the people saw him in church, because he was a cripple…to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see’
‘Not a handsome family; they were not well-dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof, their clothes were scanty…but they were happy, grateful, pleased’
