Quote 20: “meagre, scowling, wolfish”

Question 1

“______, scowling, _____”

Answer 1

“meagre, scowling, wolfish”

Question 2

who said it and when? who did they say it to? what is it about?

Answer 2

Description of Ignorance and Want in Stave Three.

Question 3

5 key features:

Answer 3

• archetypes of destitute. society’s most neglected.
• asyndetic list: seemingly endless description in reference to the seemingly endless suffering they endure
• “meagre”- malnourished as they are only-in a figurative sense- fed society’s complications. in conjunction, due to size, they are insignificant to rich
• animalistic language- “wolfish”: viewed as aggressive by rich which juxtaposes with their incapacitated nature
• zoomorphism: poverty has removed their humanity