Christmas carol are there no workhouses

It's the family more than me, sir. They put their hearts into Christmas as it were, sir. Ebenezer : Yes, and put their hands into my pockets as it were, sir. I suppose you'd better have the whole day. But be back all the earlier the next morning. Bob Cratchit : I will indeed, sir. Thank you, sir! It's more than generous of you, sir. Ebenezer : Yes, I know it is, you don't have to tell me. Ebenezer : Are you the spirit whose coming was foretold to me?

Spirit of Christmas Past : I am. Ebenezer : Who and what are you? Ebenezer : Long past? Spirit of Christmas Past : No, your past.

Ebenezer : [at a homeless shelter where Alice is working] Spirit, are these people real, or are they shadows? Spirit of Christmas Present : They are real.

We are the shadows. Ebenezer : Both of us? Spirit of Christmas Present : Did you not cut yourself off from you fellow man when you lost the love of that delicate creature? Dilber : [Scrooge raises her pay from 2 shillings a week to 16] Do you want to see a doctor? Ebenezer : A doctor? Certainly not, nor the undertaker!

Ebenezer : Who is that? The doctor? Dilber : The undertaker. Ebenezer : You don't believe in letting the grass grow under your feet, do you?

The Undertaker : Ours is a very competitive profession, sir. Ebenezer : [as Marley lies on his death bed] Well, Jacob!

Have they seen to you properly? Last rites and such? Ebenezer : There's nothing i can do? Ebenezer : Oh? What, particularly? Jacob Marley : [rasping] While Ebenezer : Time? Time for what? Jacob Marley : [rasping] Wrong Ebenezer : Wrong? Well, we can't be right all the time , can we? Nobody's perfect. You mustn't reproach yourself, Jacob. We've been no worse than the next man, or no better if it comes to that. Jacob Marley : [rasping] Save Ebenezer : Save myself?

Save myself from what? Ebenezer : Speak! Ebenezer : Go, and redeem some other promising young creature, but leave me to keep Christmas in my own way. Young Ebenezer Scrooge : [to Fan, on her deathbed] Fan? It's me, your brother. Do you know me? Fan Scrooge : Ebenezer Young Ebenezer Scrooge : Promise you what, Fan? I'll promise you anything, dearest, only there isn't going to be any need!

You're going to get well again, Fan! Fan Scrooge : No. Young Ebenezer Scrooge : You are, you are! Dear God, you must!

Fan, you This is what Western society did with the poor in the mids. Your work did not, however, pay off your debts — you could spend the rest of your life there. Needless to say, Charles Dickens grew to hate the system and rail against it in his works. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.

We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for? I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there. It is not. The two good men raising money for the poor are capitalists and entrepreneurs. The evil in society comes from indifference towards fellow people and a reliance on a governmental system that does more harm than good.

A treadmill at Brixton Prison in London in the s. The treadmill was a feature in prisons where inmates would walk endlessly, pushing a huge wheel while holding bars at chest height. With every step, the wheel would turn, grinding corn. Prisoners were allowed 12 minutes of break every hour. The Poor Law is a reference to the popular economic theories of Thomas Malthus.

Malthus argued that ruinous poverty and starvation were necessary ills, as society could not possibly provide for everyone and death would remove the undesirables from the population.

He supported the Poor Law to create workhouses for the poor, as people who were unable to sustain themselves did not have the right to live. In the fevered haunting of the second night, Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present visit the holiday celebration of Bob Cratchit, with its tiny pudding to serve a family of seven.

Social injustice in a Christmas Carol Dickens felt strongly that Victorian society ignored the poverty of its underclass. Men sitting down to a workhouse meal. In Stave I Scrooge is asked to make a donation for the 'Poor and destitute' of society. Scrooge's refusal represents the selfishness of the richer elements of Victorian society. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

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