The World of Charles Dickens “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” From the words of Scrooge one can see that the poor were treated horrendously. In Victorian Britain the poor had to work all day with almost no pay. Charles Dickens lived his life showing tis with different characters and events in his writings. The world of Charles Dickens is best understood through his own life, industrialized London, and scriptures concerning the poor. When Dickens was a young boy he had to spend his days working in factories. His family was very poor, and his father went to jail because there family couldn't afford to pay for anything.Charles had 7 other siblings so he was definitely not …show more content…
Scrooge rejected offers to give money to poor children and men on Christmas Eve just like in Victorian Britain, but later in the book Scrooge's heart was changed by 3 spirits. Although Dickens helped showing how poor people were treated industrialized Londen was still an awful place to be. London was growing rapidly in people and factories. Londen was one of the most advanced places, but they needed people to run there factories. Since the majority of people in Britain were poor and needed money they would work in these buildings. If your were a poor person your day would start earlier in the morning. You would wake up go to work and come back late at night. Two of the biggest jobs were working in factories or working in coal mines. The coal mine job was dreadful and was done by kids, because the mines were full of very tight spaces. Kids would fill carts with coal, push the carts to the surface, open a trap door to let air in, and sort the coal on the surface. If you were one of the people who got to sort coal on the surface you were probably hated by the people underground. Over at the factories people had to crawl under machines risking hair sometimes even arms or legs. Women and young children would have to thread cotton all day because