Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: faithhopecharity

Mr. Bumble was a 19th Century social worker. Off-topic, but an observation.


20 posted on 01/07/2013 1:44:55 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]


To: Eleutheria5

Yes. Bumble was Dicken’s “unfeeling” (or at least unwilling to act on any compassionate feelings) parish beadle in Oliver Twist. As such, he was in charge of little Oliver’s workhouse, where, of course, he humiliated and sometimes beat up the charges/residents (inmates?). He married, unhappily, “for money” and eventually wound up a resident (inmate?) in the very workhouse where he formerly “Lorded it over” the poor and orphaned. A “poetic justice” ending for Bumble, it seems.


23 posted on 01/07/2013 7:20:21 AM PST by faithhopecharity
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson