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Attitudes to money (Scrooge has a selfish view of money (the poor should…
Attitudes to money
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Money and Happiness
Dickens uses the novella to present his idea that poor people are happier than rich people. Showed that wealthy people (Scrooge) were miserable. However at the end when Scrooge is more generous he appears happier and healthier
However many people criticised Scrooge for this representation saying that he romanticised the poor and that most people in poverty were not like the cratchits and did argue and were unhappy and ungrateful
'The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune'
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'There is nothing on which it[the world] is so hard as poverty and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth'
'It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry. You are changed.'