Select the correct answer. Read this excerpt about the children Ignorance and Want. What do these characters represent in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol?
From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.

"Oh, Man! look here. Look, look, down here!" exclaimed the Ghost.

"They are Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers . . ."

A.
They represent the wisdom of the poor and wealthy alike.
B.
They represent the ineffectiveness of government services.
C.
They represent the poor who have been abandoned by society.
D.
They represent the fears and insecurities that prey upon humanity.
E.
They represent the deepest, darkest desires of the working class.