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A Christmas Carol

ninakennedy

How is social injustice represented In a Christmas Carol?

Reply 1

ryan15mcc

Hi there,

Hahaha this is going to be a long answer you ready?

Reply 2

ryan15mcc

Hi again,

You have the cratchets which are a microcosm for the starving, dying poor in society due to the poor laws. Tiny Tim on his iron crutch is cruely ironic as he is beng supoorted by what fuels the beligerant industrial revolution (iron), and what seeks to cause him so much pain.

The satirical notion of the ghost of christmas present repeating Scrooges miserly and misanthropic words "then they had better do it and decarese the surplus popluation". This shows the ways of the rich to opress rather than fix, to push themselves away and create a schism between the rich and the poor rather than create an accepting society. Furthermore, the children Ignorance and want being representied as yellow, meagre, scowling and wolfish is personifying the poor being preyed on mercilessly by the predators that are the rich and aristocrats "squeezing clutching and wrenching" money from the working class to fuel the industrial revolution that only still works to cause children to die in factories and wages drop whilst work hours rise.

Hope this helped and ask me other if you arfe still unsure!
Ryan