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Poverty, life in London (Cratchits family represent working class in…
Poverty, life in London
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Poor laws
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Debt lead to imprisonment and other people without a job had to go to the workhouses. These were unpleasant places where the poor were often mistreated and exploited. Dickens uses the novel to critique the Poor laws and imply that there needs to be a change
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Poor law amendment in 1834, aimed to reduce the cost of looking after the poor, workhouses were set up and if the impoverished wanted help they had to go there. They were given clothes and some food in exchange for hours of manual labour. Only the very desperate went there, widely considered horrendous places. Dickens uses the novelt o exoose the horrors of these through ignoranve adn wantand call for reform
Poverty can corrupt
This is shown through the people who sell things they find from the dead Scrooges house. Dickens suggests that these people don't really have a choice with what they're doing, they are desperate
'reeked with crime, with filth, and misery'
Dickens shows the corrupting nature of poverty as these thieves enjoy showing what they are going to sell . Dickens is showing the reader the reality of poverty to the reader. These things are inescapable when you are poor, they have to resort to this to survive.
'grey-haired rascal, nearly 70 years of age'
The description of rascal is negative and seems as if the man is sneaky and cheating. Also shocking to the reader as he is elderly and yet still having to work. This was common in the period as there were no pensions, so if you stopped working you had no income, you had to work until you died. Dickens is calling for social reforms , these people don't have a choice
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