Social Class

Question 1

Point- The rich find the poor as worthless to the world and society

Answer 1

1) “Decrease the surplus population”
2) “The treadmill and the poor law are in full vigour”
3) “Merry Christmas! What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough”

Question 2

Point- The poor will try to make the best out of a bad situation

Answer 2

1) “But brave in ribbons, second of the daughter also brave in ribbons”
2) “But nobody thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family”
3) “There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited”

Question 3

Point- The rich become obsessed with money rather than humanity

Answer 3

1) “Another idle has displaced me, a golden one”
2) “He was good as gold”
3) “I can’t afford to make idle people merry”