Context - ACC

Question 1

📘 The Industrial Revolution and the Poor Law

Answer 1

• Industrial Revolution: Brought machines into work, causing job losses and unsafe conditions.
• Child labour: Became common in dangerous factory jobs.
• Poor Law Amendment Act (1834): Set up harsh workhouses to stop money going directly to the poor. Families were separated and treated cruelly.
• Victorian attitude: Poverty was seen as the person’s own fault.

Question 2

How does Industrial Revolution and the poor law link to ACC

Answer 2

👷‍♂️ Working Conditions
- Scrooge represents greedy businessmen.

• Bob Cratchit has poor working conditions (cold, low pay).
• Mr Fezziwig is a good employer, showing a positive contrast.

💸 Attitudes Towards the Poor
- Scrooge supports prisons and workhouses instead of helping the poor.

• Dickens shows poverty is caused by the system, not laziness.
• Cycle of poverty is hard to escape.

Question 3

📘 Christianity

Answer 3

⛪ Christian Values
- Charity, kindness, family, goodwill.

• Christmas became popular in the 1800s — Dickens helped shape this.
• The story teaches that these values should be shown all year, not just at Christmas.

Question 4

✝️ Redemption

Answer 4

• Scrooge changes from selfish to kind (redemption).
• The ghosts help him see his past, present, and future mistakes.

Question 5

👻 Marley’s Ghost

Answer 5

• Shows Christian ideas of repentance and the afterlife.
• Marley is punished in death for being greedy in life.

Question 6

🎄 The Christmas Spirit

Answer 6

• The Ghost of Christmas Present symbolises joy, generosity, and celebration.

Question 7

🚸 Child Mortality in Victorian England

Answer 7

• High due to malnutrition, disease, and poor living conditions.
• Child labour in dangerous jobs kept children poor and uneducated.

Question 8

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family in Victorian Society

Answer 8

• Seen as a place of love and support.
• Bob Cratchit is shown as a loving father.
• Scrooge is alone but learns the value of family.

Question 8

🧒 Tiny Tim

Answer 8

• Represents real suffering of poor children.
• Dickens uses Tim to criticise a system that lets children die from poverty.

Question 9

💕 Love and Marriage

Answer 9

• Fred marries for love — this was becoming more common in Victorian times.
• Scrooge lost Belle because he valued money more than love.

Question 10

📚 The Novella and Victorian Literature

Answer 10

• A Christmas Carol is a novella (short novel) with a strong moral message.
• Published in 1843 to highlight poverty and encourage kindness.
• Uses allegory — characters and events represent ideas (e.g., Scrooge = selfishness).

Question 11

👻 Gothic and Romantic Influences

Answer 11

• Ghosts are Gothic elements used to bring about Scrooge’s change.
• The story focuses on personal transformation, a key Romantic idea.