poverty mindmap
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- Created on: 25-01-17 07:08
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- Poverty
- Social context
- Poor law
- was expensive £7 million
- encouraged people to have kids
- payed people to be lazy
- encouraged people to be lazy
- money from the poor law was taken from the rich
- 1834 Poor Law Amendment act
- Were like prisons
- Had to wear uniforms
- Separated families
- Strict rules and regulations
- Food and clothes were given in exchange for several hours of labour every day
- If people wanted help, they went to a workhouse
- Only gave money to the poor in exceptional circumstances
- Were like prisons
- Reactions to the 1834 Poor Law Amendment act
- Against
- Cruel and unchristian
- Britain was Christian
- Treat others how you wish to be treated
- Believed the law was about punishing people for circumstances beyond their control
- Poor
- Christians
- Dickens
- Future Scrooge
- Cruel and unchristian
- In favour
- Believed Poverty was a result of immorality and laziness
- Dickens
- Past Scrooge
- Rich
- Against
- Poor law
- The Cratchits quotes
- 'brave in ribbons
- Mrs Cratchit’s ribbons might be a luxury but they are also a symbol of her desperation to make her dress look new and respectable.
- 'the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon' (p. 49).
- However, she can afford these ribbons and the family does have a Christmas goose
- nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. It would have been flat heresy to do so. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing'
- The Cratchits are full at the end of their meal, although we have to wonder if this is because they don’t have enough to eat the rest of the year
- 'brave in ribbons
- Quotes about poverty
- 'Many thousands are in want of common necessaries'
- The charity collectors tell us that other people are in horrible situations without what everyone would call necessary in their life
- would rather die
- Most of the poor would want to die than go to the Union workhouses or the Treadmill.
- a wretched woman with an infant … upon a door-step
- It wasn't her fault she was in that situation, but there was no way out
- reeked with crime, with filth, and misery
- With this scene he shows the corrupting nature of poverty as these thieves enjoy showing what they have stolen to sell. What the rich thought the poor was like
- 'Many thousands are in want of common necessaries'
- Quotes about how people felt about poverty
- Are there no prisons, are there no workhouses
- if they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
- I cant't afford to make idle people merry
- for on his brow I see that written which is doom
- everyone is doomed
- ignorance and want
- two things that were dooming society
- ignoring what's happening around them
- show society that they needed to change
- want
- More than they needed
- what they need to survive
- it was written to challenge the views of the poor
- show society that they needed to change
- Tiny Tim quotes
- he hoped people saw him in church, because he was a cripple, and it might make pleasant to him to remember upon Christmas day, who make lame beggars walk and blind men see
- The child will die
- Tell me if Tiny Tim will live
- Tiny Tim
- size makes him vulnerable
- doesn't moan about disability
- feeble voice-sounds ill
- despite disability as active as can be
- loved in the family most by bob
- we know he's gonna die next christmas
- Family knows he's gonna die they fear it
- doesn't moan about disability
- size makes him vulnerable
- Withered hand
- Social context
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