“He turned nearly as good a friend, nearly as good a king, as good men […]”(Stave Four). Brand new repetition from ‘good’ features what Scrooge was – he could be no longer evil and that’s form to everyone, it does not matter who they really are so you’re able to him – friend or slave which implies he could be not any longer mistreating his strength because a manager.
They should “decrease the surplus population.” In one of Scrooge’s most cutting remarks, he refers to the work of Victorian academic Thomas Malthus when he argues that if poor people can’t afford to live then they should hurry up and die to decrease the “surplus population.” In this, like Malthus, he argues that those who cannot afford to live are surplus to requirements and shouldn’t be kept by the state. Lees verder