Poverty / Social injustice Flashcards
1
Q
“The Treadmill and the poor laws are in full vigour then?”
“Are there no prisons?”
“And the Union workhouses?”
A
- Scrooge refuses to give money
- Represents the selfishness of upper classes
- Injustice of wealth distribution
2
Q
“Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did.”
A
- Thieves dividing up Scrooge’s belongings
- Upper class only thinking of themselves
- Miserly
3
Q
“If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”
A
- Thomas Malthus
- Lack of sympathy
- Poor are a burden
4
Q
“a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds”
A
- Ignorance and want
- Not happy and joyous as children should be
- Children are the responsibility of all mankind
- Representative of working class children
5
Q
“Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family”
A
- Cratchit household
- Plenty vs poverty
6
Q
Rich enjoyed comfort but…
A
Ignored the poor children forced to live in workhouses
Poor Law 1834
