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“The guy turned nearly as good a friend, as good a king, nearly as good a person […]”(Stave Four). The newest repetition off ‘good’ features exactly what Scrooge has been – he could be no more worst that’s kind to any or all, it doesn’t matter who they really are so you’re able to your – friend otherwise slave which suggests he or she is no more harming their power as a manager.
They should “decrease the surplus people.” 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. In many ways this is at the heart of a lot of Dickens’ philosophy: he argued that if we are to keep the poor alive, we should at least give them the chance to exist with the self-respect and dignity required to make themselves feel human. Here, Scrooge falls back on a “final solution” or sorts, though he really only reflects what society was doing anyway by ignoring the poor and then starving them into submission. (περισσότερα…)