A Christmas Carol (English Coursework)

During 1843 Charles the Tempter wrote a apologue A Christmas Carol. The fable was influences by the experience Charles Dickens had of the social divide of the recondite and the inadequate during the Victorian clock. Charles Dickens had a terrible childhood, his family pass several historic period in increasing poverty. Dickens was sent to work long hours in a blacking factory. This was beca function his father was imprisoned for debt in 1824. Dickens spent ten hours a day sticking labels on pots of boot blacking. His carriage was miserable and he was determined to improve the quality of his and those of other abject mass.Crime rates increased dramatic solelyy due to poverty and destitution. The memories of these intemperate times haunted dickens for the rest of his keep. He felt problematical about the neglect of the misfortunate. In a lot of his work he describes the issues with poverty and the social and physical conditions of Victorian capital of the United Kingdom. He compares these conditions to the wealthy, luxurious lifestyles of the stop number class to bring awareness of the disgusting standards of living at the set down fire of society, so that everyone could be educated on this subject, he flat gave public reading of his own work.Londons industrial age helped the UK to become loaded and successful. However, this era had affected the country physically, socially, and culturally, because of the establish workforcet of the factory system. Many throng began moving to cities in search of a secure job, this lead to a huge growth in the population. This caused there to be three times to a greater extent race living in Great Britain at the end of the century than the beginning. The overcrowding resulted in conditions that were dangerous and caused an increase in crime and poverty.In London the river Thames was full of sewage and the air was full of soot and pollution. unripened children and adults were forced to work 14 hours a day and were paid stone bottom wages even though they were working in life threatening conditions. The scummy had no jobs, not enough food and had a low life expectancy of twenty nine. This was because most(prenominal) plenty in the bottom end of society were malnourished which was caused by starvation they in any case couldnt afford healthcare. However, the higher classes advert increasing profits at the disbursal of the poor.The rich took advantage of the poor by forcing them to work long hours in life threatening conditions for little pay. The rich thought the poor were poor because they were lazy and couldnt be bothered to do anything. At the beginning of the novel the ref is immediately given a negative persuasion of tike being a stingy old homo. Dickens emphasises the point by describing niggard with many words that all mean nearly the comparable Oh but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous o ld sinnerThis is sound in show the reader that his desire for money comes before anything else. It shows that his number one priority is fashioning as much profit as possible. This makes the reader get the impression that crosspatch is extremely horrible and greedy. When Dickens uses hold up to describe Scrooge he makes him sound as horrible as possible, a man who has no feelings. External heat and inhuman has little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. Dickens suggests that no weather has an affect on him whether its cold or hot.Scrooge is much too cold hearted to be affected by anything or anyone, no matter what time of year. Scrooge is presented as being plain and having no emotions. The cold within him froze his old features, this makes the reader mean the cold from inside him has made him ugly on the outside. This exposition of Scrooge is made even more unpleasant when it is compared to that of Scrooges cheerful nephew. When Scrooges nephew, Fred comes to wish Scrooge a festal Christmas Scrooge replies by saying, what reason do you have to be marvelous?This shows the reader that Scrooge has no respect for his nephew. It is also humourous as he thinks no poor person has anything to be merry about, But he is rich and miserable. He, like many of the rich at that time believed the poor are poor because they are lazy. When two men come to Scrooge to ask for money to give to charity he replies, I dont make merry myself at Christmas, and I cant afford to make idle raft merry. This shows that scrooge is hard-hearted and doesnt see the poor as pot but sees them as a problem.Scrooge thinks that the poor should be left wing to die to decrease the population as there was overcrowding in London at the time this novel was written. If they would rather die Said Scrooge, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. The miserable and gloomy mood of Scrooge is barely emphasised by Dickens use of pathetic fa llacy. The fog comes burbly in at every chink and keyhole The houses opposite were mere phantoms. The use of pathetic fallacy creates a dull atmosphere which matches the atmosphere created by Scrooge.The use of the word Phantoms creates an even spookier atmosphere. It is or so as if what ever Scrooge is feeling he will make the same atmosphere and weather as he is feeling. In stave three Dickens describes the commercialize Place and the poor start up of town both give a different impression to the reader. There were great round potbellied baskets of vanity nuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentleman, By Dickens exploitation this simile it makes the reader think of father Christmas because he is often depict as being happy and joyful.This is effective in showing that people dont have to be rich to be joyful. This description of the market manoeuver is made even more cheerful when compared to the miserable and unpleasant, poor part of town which is shown to be a de pressing and disheartening bulge out to live. The description of the poor part of town is shown as being even more unattractive, The people half naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. The comparison amidst the cheerful market place and the poor part of town is really important because it shows how the rich people live and how depressing the lives of poor people are.This is effective in showing people how lucky they are compared to the poor peoples lifestyles. Victorian society is reflected as being greedy and non-caring and also shows the massive social divide between the rich and the poor. By the end of the novel Scrooge has completely alter from being a bitter and miserable old sinner into a more cheerful and energetic juvenile man. He used to be, A squeezing, wrenching, clutching, covetous, old sinner whereas at the end of the novel he describes himself as, I am as light as a feather. I am as happy as a school boy, I am as giddy as a drunken man.A merry Christmas to everybody Thi s description of Scrooge shows that he is no longer a particular old man and now has changed into a much more youthful and jolly man. He no longer thinks that he is better than all poor people and that poor people cant be merry. In this divide of the novel there is a lot of exclamation marks and swindle sentences used to show that he is peaking excitedly, this enhances the fact that he is in a happy and enthusiastic mood. This use of short sentences and exclamation marks almost makes Scrooge sound younger.In my opinion A Christmas Carol is really effective in informing the reader of the social divide between the rich and the poor during Victorian times. I think that the book would have been costly at informing the rich about the appalling living standards of the poor par of town. There was no other way for the rich people to find out about this because they had never been to this part of the town. I think that Charles Dickens was trying to make everyone aware of the poverty and overcrowding the poor people were going through, he was emotionally attached because he had been through this for most of his childhood and early adulthood.