10 Quotes That Teach Me Everything Flashcards
‘Solitary as an oyster”
Stave 1
Language= simile
Oyster is symbolic for capitalism
Adjective= solitary, Implies forced loneliness
Structure= foreshadowing a change for redemption (the pearl)
The “pearl” is Scrooge but has been covered by the oyster, the ghosts crack this oyster to portray his real nature being the pearl
Can be used for: capitalism, redemption, supernatural, social impact
Cut of from society= oysters found at the bottom of cold seas, trying to protect their valuable pearls (scrooges money)
“I wear the chains I forged in life”
Act 1, scene 3
Form= gothic genre, (supernatural/ unnatural) made to scare the reader
Chain= symbolism
Forged= verb- idea of accountability (acceptance that he did this to himself, created the chains he wears because he knows he is guilty)
Life= flashback
A warning and idea of being weighed down by your sins
Shows the dangerous of not being able to control yourself from greed
Can relate this too capitalism,
Supernatural
Redemption/ change
Scrooge
Fear
“The smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs…dirtier snow upon the ground”
Pathetic fallacy
Adjective= smooth and dirtier
Structure= juxtaposition
Can link to capitalism, class, change and weather.
Snow can symbolise the rich and poor. The smooth snow of the roof, untouched and stress free looks down at the dirty snow on the ground, the poor working class. (Juxtaposition) and pathetic fallacy is to reflect the mood in the play.
“Boy is ignorance. Girl is want”
Language= metaphor
Symbolism of society-
Children reflect the most vulnerable in society (poor, working class)
Structure= short sentences creates dramatic effect, forces the reader to listen closely. Sounds like facts “is”, you have to believe it.
Ignorance=Upperclass ignore the sufferings and block out the systemic problems, blood on all our hands.
Want= need food, clothes, change in society.
Can link to social problems, Scrooge symbolises the change needed.
“ I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!” by Scrooge
I= zooms into accountability
Imperative (command) to himself (Scrooge) holding himself to account the way the spirits do.
Shut out= no longer in the “oyster”
“The cold within him, froze his old features” describes Scrooge
Symbolism
Personification
Can relate to capitalism or patriarchy
Foreshadows death in Scrooge “froze”
The ghosts defrost him
“Old features” capitalism/ patriarchy
Scrooge a victim of the system
“Good a friend, as good a master, as good a man” describing Scrooge
Triplet= rule of 3
Repetition of “good”
Writer emphasis Scrooge is good
The 3 roles= friend, master, man
A product of change.
“Another idol has displaced me”
Idol= symbol of worship
Gender
Implies she wants to be his only idol, wants Scrooge to see her as the only idol- men supposed to be the powerful or not submissive. Upset that the other idol “replaces” her, and not that he has a new one
Scrooge is a slave to his desires, money. “ a golden one”
The catalyst of Scrooge’s downfall
God bless us everyone! Tiny Tim
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man” Stave 3
“Every idiot who goes about with ‘mercy Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart”
Are there no prisons? Scrooge stave 1
“Bright clear jet of light” “purest light” Stage 2, of the ghost of present
