... and calls for the readers" sympathy by showing the workers" hardships through Stephen Blackpool, a worker who is honest, innocent, generous and full of integrity. However, facing dead-end situations, Stephen Blackpool is the most pathetic figure. Stephen Blackpool is the most suffered and submissive worker. Although ... Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs- lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, for forty years of age." Dickens comments on the terrible lives of workers. The word " generically" presents that th...

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... yet not so like a child as like an old man", "It's hair, which hung about its neck and down it's back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it". It is young, and like a child, because Scrooge was a child in his past, which he will ... it is angelic, and pure, and symbolises the innocence of childhood; something which Scrooge has lost. "It held a branch of fresh, green holly in it's hand". This is to symbolise Christmas, as one of the aims of the spirits is to help Scrooge to re-discover the joy of Christmas. "It had it's dress trimmed with ... opposite, and, ...

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