1. Critical Response paper
What is Social Darwinism (explain in your own words, without using outside sources) and
what role does Social Darwinism play in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol? Granted,
Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species in 1859, a few years after Charles Dickens
published A Christmas Carol in 1843, but to what extent is an early form of Social
Darwinism at stake in A Christmas Carol? Please write a critical response based on this
question.Your paper should be 2-3 pages long (meaning at least 2 full pages), double-
spaced, with 1” margins using Times New Roman 12 point font, and it should conform to the
Critical Response Papers Rubric handed out in class and also available on Blackboard. You
must also use at least 4 direct quotations from the novel to support the claims that you
make in your paper, cited with parenthetical references in correct MLA format “like this”
(Dickens 17) #Critical #Response #paper
