Monday, February 25, 2019
How does Dickens present the poor and poverty in A Christmas Carol?
In the fresh A Christmas Carol Dickens faces that there is oft curt and poorness discharge on in the world. In the novel a families are exposed of going through distress and creation poor, bob Cratchit and his wife and Tiny Tim and his new(prenominal) children, Bob Cratchit is a populace who computes for Mr grump. He has a sm only family who depend on the income he gets from Mr tyke. This is already expose the readers that if Mr grouch did not pay him his remuneration then Bob would be in trouble with his family.How allow he manage to feed them?. Even though this family is poor, they seem to be in high spirits at all times. Bobs family are all dep stop on Mr churl to pay him if not then they will not brood to exist. Showing the readers this family is very unfortunate to not nurse as very a lot bullion as Mr peasant has. This shows that the Cratchits may not be as happier as they are now if they had no coin at all, hitherto going through poverty does not stop tiny Tim from praying to god to help them all.Fred, Scrooges nephew seems to be happy enough with the bullion he has and comes to share his happiness with Mr Scrooge further he neglects Freds withdrawer to lead dinner party at his home. Fred who had married a lady who was not as rich as Mr Scrooge was happy despite the lack of coin he is determined to celebrate Christmas. He is al expressions glad and smiling regardless of how much money he has. Men and women should open their exclude up hearts freely, Even if you opened your heart freely what if money was stopping you? You have all the money you could ever lack for, yet your still not as happy as other are?Fred does not worry about what you think money butt bring. Open your heart freely. Mr Scrooge shows not feeling but seems to be in a bighearted temper at all times level(p) though he has much money than he needs. Fred shows he is better off without all the money that Mr Scrooge has, he has his wife, his family his friends even though he is going through poverty and Dickens is showing this by making Fred go round to his uncles work and invite him to his Christmas dinner and is ignored by Mr Scrooge by calling Christmas a pseud, He is showing that even though you may be poor and are going through poverty there should be cypher to stop you from being in a excellent mood.Fezziwig, another soulfulnessal line of credit man just like Mr Scrooge has umpteen more batch and families who depend on him and rely on him to progress them alive with his money. Fezziwig is seen bad all his workers a day off and smiling and laughing forward with them, Scrooge seems to think why Fezziwig will do such a thing (Spend so much money for his workers). Although Fezziwig is rich and has his family and friends with him he spends some(prenominal) of his money on his workers this expands the happiness he already has, and withal makes his workers light-hearted in the season of Christmas.Mr Scrooge seems t o think that what Fezziwig is doing is too a prank he hobonot come to terms with the fact that sharing is caring. Fezziwig is better off giving money to the poor and being happy unlike Scrooge who has so much money but does not share at all he dislikes wasting money he dislikes spending his money altogether. Dickens is severe to show the readers that even having to be poor and going through tough times with getting to have a nourish and leaving in a place your family can sleep well, being happy about Christmas and the more merrier you are the more merrier your Christmas will be.The readers can tell that Scrooge is very different from Fezziwig the two differences that they have is that Scrooge hates spending his money, even though he is rich he is gloomy rotting a itinerary in his work place and in his kinsfolk on his own. Whereas Fezziwig is as rich as Scrooge, he spends a scummy amount of money to make the life of his workers a little more enjoyable.What Dickens is trying t o show the reader is that Scrooge is the type of person who is greedy at first-year and will want to keep his money to himself and all his thoughts and feelings kept inside himself. His character has formed for his past. Scrooge was a lonely boy and then as a young man he was employed by a kind and giving man. all in all the same, Ebenezer had magnificent ambitions. He also wanted to earn as much as he could ever get and this is what had distorted Scrooges personality as well as himself. His solicitude of having to lose all his money and Business, has changed his neighborly life, and his personal life, its goed him mentally and physically. He has neglected his friends and his family, he also seems to disregard himself and forget how he is, forgetting his health and well being for his money. This fear of poverty has taken over his life and changed him.Dickens is trying to show us that poverty is something very powerful, having no home or money could change the way you think of m oney completely you may remove to get money or even beg, but before when you did have the money you had taken it for granted. So once you have lost all of the money you once had you may want it back again and will do anything to gain it back.Dickens as a child had also gone through poverty as he used to work in a workhouse in his early ages, poverty was a outstanding inspiration for Dickens to create A Christmas Carol as it shows so much that masses may not understand, Charles Dickens is trying to show us how a Christmas should be spent without al the grief but full of joy and happiness.Dickens experience of poverty had also changed his way of thinking and has made him realise that poverty possibly will affect some ones family and their own self in a bad way. retributory before his fathers arrest, the 12-year-old Dickens had begun working ten-hour days at Warrens Blacking Warehouse. He earned six shillings a week pasting labels on jars of thick garment polish. This money paid f or his lodgings with Mrs. Roylance and helped support his family, So Dickens knows how Bob Cratchit will feel about his family being dependent on him for the money he earns for Scrooge.At this time there was a lot of poverty in capital of the United Kingdom and it was not unusual for such a twaddle as A Christmas Carol to occur.TransformationThe transformation that took place had changed the way that scrooge used to think about Christmas, He was at first a very lonely and miserable old man, who used to keep everything to him self, his feelings were never expressed and by no means ever smiled. Scrooge is very touched by the visions that the ghost of Christmas past shows him his transformation begins. He remembers the feelings he had for the love of his life, but he had left her for his business and his wealth. The scenes he had seen were appalling and he had realised that he could steer clear of ending his life in misery. He had seen the consequences of his actions, and stirred away from them.In the novel A Christmas Carol Dickens links Scrooge to bad live on on page 12 Dickens metaphorically describes Scrooge, No hotness could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often came down givingly, and scrooge never did. Dickens had described Scrooge as being so cold that the heaviest rain and coldest weather were better off than him.He is compared to his nephew Fred who with such a uncle, who comes from such bad weather he was all in a glow his face was ruddy and handsome his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. This is showing us that Fred is a much happier person than scrooge. And even though he is from the same background as Scrooge, he is a completely different person to scrooge. Dickens is trying to show us that Scrooge and Fred have a complete limit between them. Fred is Warm and Scrooge is Cold, As soo n as Fred has entered the room the atmosphere had changed from cold to warm, showing us how cold Scrooge really is.Furthermore Dickens shows Scrooge how the industrial revolution had changed London and the affect it had on the poor people. On Page 77 the tail later takes Scrooge to an obscure part of town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, Although he recognised its situation and its bad repute. Being so rich Scrooge had never stepped into the bad part of town, which because of them that part of town was in that bad state The onset of the Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human society and these poor people who had no jobs and no money had to stay at the dark parts of town which was in a bad condition. The industrial revolution had introduced many new things which had rapidly changed the whole world.
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