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Dickens felt that British society itself was miserable, given the marked divisions between the classes and the horrible state of the poor. Despite being a largely Christian society, which preached a significant deference toward the poor, in actuality the poor suffered in workhouses (aka poorhouses, which were essentially slavery), treadmills (large human powered wheels which originally had driven mechanisms to mill grain or move water, but ultimately became just giant hamster wheels to keep idle people or prisoners busy), or prisons. Scrooge represents the upper class who did little to improve the state of the poor beyond the penal systems already in place. The point of the story is, through Scrooge, to hold up a mirror to the upper class and try to get them to rediscover their own humanity and responsibility to the lower classes.
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