Poverty Flashcards
Main ideas about poverty:
1) Dickens believes in two types of poverty, the undeserving poor and the deserving poor.
2) Ignorance and Want - symbolise the children that didn’t experience a blissful childhood due to poverty.
3) People of poverty are prisoners of their situation and the only way out of poverty is through education which they aren’t entitled to.
‘twice turned gown…
brave in ribbons’
“If they would rather die they had better do it and…
decrease the surplus population”
“I wear the chains…
I forged in life”
“This boy is ignorance. This girl is want…
Beware them both, and all of their degree but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is doom”
‘pinched and twisted them and pulled them into shreds…
where angels might have sat enthroned devils lurked’
‘Yellow, meagre, ragged…
scowling wolfish but prostate’
‘The ways were fould and narrow;…
the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod and ugly’
‘the whole quarter reeked with crime…
with filth and misery.’
