Social Responsibility Flashcards
Main ideas about social responsibility:
1) Ignorant and Want expose that if people, especially children, are left uncared for it leads to doom.
2) The importance of a legacy and how it will affect your reputation/ afterlife if you don’t help the lower class.
3) The impact of being a good employer - Fezziwig vs Scrooge.
“Are there no _______/______?”
workhouses/ prisons
‘To edge his way along the crowded paths of life…
warning all human sympathy to keep its distance.’
“If they would rather die they had better do it and…
decrease the surplus population”
“I wear the chain…
I forged in life.”
“I will not shut out the…
lessons they teach.”
“The boy is Ignorance and the girl is Want…
beware of them both but most of all beware of the boy for on his forehead is written doom”.
Ghost analysis related to social responsibility:
The Ghosts take on the role of being a teacher who guides Scrooge to redemption and exposes the consequences of not being a philanthropist.
“Mankind was my ______”
business
“The happiness he gives is quite as great…
as if it costs a fortune.”
“He hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple and it might be…
pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.”
‘There stood a solitary _________’
lighthouse
‘Pinched and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds…
Where angels might have sat enthroned devils lurked’
‘The ways were foul and narrow…
the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked and drunken, slipshod and ugly.’
‘obscure part of town…
where Scrooge had never penetrated before’
