Wealth and Poverty in 'A Christmas Carol': Context, Quotations, and Analysis

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[@potatopie7778]

The negative presentation of poverty is extremely important as it shows the negative affects that poor people Victorian England must experience as a result of the actions of wealthy upper and middle class. They hoarded excess money which could have been used to benefit the poor, allowing the poor to not have to steal or live in misery as a last result of survival. As the maids "sat grouped about their spoil" while witnessing this scrooge "viewed them with detestation and disgust " unaware that their actions were partly his doing due it his reluctance to give charity and being a miserly man. This would shed light onto the well of readers of the novel, would have been middle or higher class people , as they would have been able to buy and have the spare time to read the book. On what the consequences of their actions are on the rest of society. Dickens did this to counterargue the Malthusian theory which was suggested by Malthus that because the human population would grow faster than food supplies , the poor would get poorer and it was inevitable however Dickens argued that this would be unnecessary if the rich would just give some of their wealth away in the form of charity as it was nobles oblige and the right and Christian thing to do. I tried Sunday observance bill - negative presentation of wealth - 12:28

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this has helped me so much! I was also thinking about how the ghost of Christmas present revealed ignorance and want to scrooge could symbolise the way society tries to cover them up- because the ghost was hiding them under his robe

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[@semilorekaji-hausa2078]

I think poverty as a positive was probably the most key message Dickens had to offer about the poor bc of his audience he would've needed to at the very least counteract their biased to send an effective message. That being said it might be a good idea to add timestamps in the comments or description either sectioning the video by topic/theme or by the quote being analysed bc otherwise the video is difficult to come back to for quick revision.

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Hello! Thanks for your kind comments - I'm really glad that my videos helped you out in your exams! I've definitely considered making videos about Macbeth, yep, although it may not be for a while yet. I'm still working on R+J videos and I'll want a bit of a break from Shakespeare after that! 😅

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I have an assessment on this tomorrow and this has helped me out a lot! Thank you so much for this video.😊

[@nicolaharris1710]

what was the question aha we’ve got an assessment on this but ns what it will be :)

[@alinajoseph8244]

@@nicolaharris1710 The question was "How does Dickens present the suffering of the poor." I mean, it's not too bad of a question and I think I did ok in it but you know, you can't be sure until you get the results!😂

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This helped me out loadsss thanks!! I'll comment my grade once it arrives

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[@esther7325]

I got a grade 7 which isn't back considering I studied the night b4 and didn't previously know any quotes...

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[@wiseworlds9663]

Poverty in its positive connotation because it contrast the silly ideas the rich had for the poor people. The Crachit family show that being poor doesn’t necessarily mean that unhappiness is present. The contrast between both Scrooge and the Cratchits shows Scrooge is actually spiritually poor where as the Cratchits are spiritually rich.

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[@dingusgoober]

I wonder how many people watching this video isn't currently doing an assignment on A Christmas Carol

[@itsesma1549]

11:44 who says what

[@balisani9135]

What copy of the book do you use?

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It's the Penguin Classics 'A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings' 😊

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28:08 scared me

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16:57

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[@dodgy9213]

Am I the only one who agrees with (or at least sees) Maltheus' point?

[@magesticchicen]

If you were ill but couldn't afford the health care, would you willingly die?

[@semilorekaji-hausa2078]

Heads up, this idea has actually long since been debunked, like it's already established in economics that Malthus was wrong. There's a longer explanation that you might want to search up but basically he got his maths wrong, he couldn't have predicted that technology to make food and resources would improve so much more or that better living conditions meant people had less kids since they only had more back then bc the kids were all dying so you had to have tons so a few of them would survive. He also couldn't have predicted birth control either. But today, we definitely have enough resources to feed everyone twice over at least. The problem today is not that there are too many people, the problem now is that very few people own everything, very few people have access to all of those resources.