A Christmas Carol

Question 1

inequality and responsibility

Answer 1

`Decrease the surplus population’

• Decrease means death
• surplus show they are not needed in society and scrooge isn’t responsible

Question 2

Inequality and responsibility

Answer 2

`Are there no prisons, Are there no workhouses’
- Scrooge feels no one has to worry about the poor because there are places for them. It’s not his problem and doesn’t want to take social responsibility

Question 3

Ghost of Christmas past

Answer 3

Scrooge says hide the `bright clear jet of light ‘

• this has connotations that’s Scrooge is reluctant to face the truth of his past actions
• the spirit implies that scrooges mean attitude has helped create the cap that suppresses its light

Question 4

Ghost of Christmas past

Answer 4

The spirit says `your lip is trembling’

• Scrooge is touched by witnessing his childhood.
• These intense emotions force scrooge to reflect on who he used to be