Question

Explain the symbolic meaning of the two children hidden under the robes of the Ghost of Christmas Present. What does Dickens mean in the quote below? "This boy is ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased." *​

Answer 1

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

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