A Christmas Carol

What is the symbolism f the children who represent ignorance and hungry?

A Christmas Carol

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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.