“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
This told us about how little Scrooge thought of the poor and is the type of person to believe Thomas Malthus’s theory. If it doesn’t affect him, he simply doesn’t care. He is a representation of how all rich people viewed the poor during the Victorian era and gave no pity nor sympathy towards them. However, later on in the story, you will see positive character development for Scrooge.
The correct answer should be <span>a. self-assertion.
She considers herself to finally be free now that her husband died. She feels that she has the right to be alone and do what she wants without being neglected.</span>
Answer: Only reluctantly does he allow Eurycleia to wash his feet. As she is putting them in a basin of water, she notices a scar on one of his feet. She immediately recognizes it as the scar that Odysseus received when he went boar hunting with his grandfather Autolycus. She then proceeds to wrap her arms around Odysseus to which he silences her so that his secret will not be carried further.
