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What do the two children clutching at the spirits robe symbolize? ​

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Scrooge sees under the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Present, two children, whose names show that they are symbols: Ignorance and want. They represent your standard impoverished Dickensian children; they are ragged in clothes, dirty and starving.
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