Poverty Flashcards

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‘Frost that held it prisoner’ - poverty

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Personification highlights literally the poor being held captive by capitalism
Metaphorically it outlines that the poor are inevitably deemed to failure due to their lack of education
Poor lass 1834
Dickens being humanitarian believed that this idea of putting lower classes into prisons was wrong

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Poverty

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Critical theory explains that the class division will lead to conflict
If the poor keep getting hidden away the problem will explode, damaging humanity itself
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