A Visit to Newgate By Charles Dickens Questions Based on the Essay The Reading Position in A Visit to Newgate.

. 1) What is the reading position that the narrator of A Visit to Newgate constructs? Explain. 2) How are the working-class seen or described? How does this representation demonstrate the narrators concept towards them? 3) How does the narrators approach to the reading position helps designing the social behavior of hard-working and order-keeper in the ideal reader? Why is that desirable within the capitalist ideology? 4) Summarize in a sentence what the narrator intends to tell the narrator. 5) How can the first-person narrator be able to represent the prisoners thoughts and dreams? Is it realistic, after all? 6) What does it mean that the narrator does not describe the death itself to the ideal reader? 7) How is the opposition free and not free explored in the text? What is the role of individual nature (character, free will), and the role of social conditions? 8) What common base is there for the reader to share with the narrator in order to assume a position of mutual understanding and reach a coherent judging of the situation?