Stave 1
'Are there no prisons?... And the Union workhouses?... If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.' This line returns to haunt Scrooge in Stave 3.
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From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Scrooge's brutal rejection of two charity collectors crystallizes Dickensian social critique of utilitarian indifference to the poor.
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