Context

Question 1

When was a CC written?

Answer 1

End of industrial revolution.
New manufacturing processes, machines that required less workers, steam trains, water power etc.
New economic superpowers

Question 2

Why is context important?

Answer 2

Dickens was pressed by the darker crueler effects of social and economic transformation and the inequality it created.

Question 3

Malthusian theory

Answer 3

Poor people were poor due to laziness, or immorality.
Helping them would encourage the laziness.
‘Help’ was painful - e.g workhouses
Helping them would encourage a ‘surplus population’ size - starvation of these people were good.

Question 4

surplus population
Why is this phrase important in a CC?

Answer 4

This phrase shows us how scrooge represents malthusian economic theory.
‘Decrease the surplus population’

Question 5

What did Dickens friend say about the message of christmas carol?

Answer 5

Nobody has not some interest in the message.
Told selfish man to rid himself of selfishness.
The just man to make himself generous
Good natured man to enlarge the sphere of his good nature

Shows how everyone has a message to learn - important in this text.