Ignorance And Want

Question 1

Describe the twins in a quote

Answer 1

“ meagre, ragged, wolfish, montrous”
“ beware them both”
“ they are Man’s”

Question 2

Use of social commentary

Answer 2

Critique Victorian society
= higher class have abundance
= lower class have nothing

Question 3

How are animalistic traits represented and a quote

Answer 3

“ be a claw, for the flesh” upon it
= emphasises the way poverty dehumanises individuals reducing them to an animalistic state
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Question 4

Analyse the quote “yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish”

Answer 4

• asyndetic sentence emphasises the number of terrible side effects of
• “yellow” connotes a sense of sickness
  = implies that poverty is a disease that needs to be treated