A Christmas Carol Flashcards
“External heat and cold…”
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“External heat and cold had little influence on scrooge.”
Theme: Redemption
Stave 1
Said by: Narrator
“Darkness is…”
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“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
Theme: Redemption
Stave 1
Said by: Narrator
“If they would rather die…”
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“If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”
Theme: Social Injustice
Stave 1
Said by: Scrooge
As solitary as an…”
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“As solitary as an oyster.”
Theme: Redemption
Stave 1
Said by: Narrator
“I wear the chains…”
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“I wear the chains I forged in life”
Theme: Responsibility
Stave 1
Said by: Jacob Marley
“Another idol has…”
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“Another idol has displaced me”
Theme: Relationships, redemption
Said by: Belle
“The boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware them both and…”
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“The boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware them both and all of their degree, but most of all, beware of this boy”
Theme: Social injustice, responsibility
Stave 3
Said by: Ghost of Christmas present
“If these shadows remain unaltered…”
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“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
Theme: Responsibility
Stave 3
Said by: Ghost of Christmas Present about Tiny Tim
“Overrun by…”
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“Overrun by grass and weeds”
Theme: Redemption
Stave 4
Said by: narrator about Scrooge’s grave
“It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral…”
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“It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral, for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it.”
Stave:4
Said by: Two business colleagues
“ The Spirits of all Three…”
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“The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me”
Theme: Redemption, Christmas
Said by: Scrooge
“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A…”
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“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”
Stave 1
Said by: narrator
“No warmth could warm…”
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“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.”
Stave 1
Said by: narrator
“My little, little child…”
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“My little, little child! My little child!”
Theme: family
Stave 4
Said by: Bob Cratchit
“There is nothing more irresistibly contagious as…“
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“There is nothing more irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
Said by: narrator
“The cold within him froze his features, nipped his pointed nose…”
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“The cold within him froze his features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.”
Theme: Gothic
Stave 1
Said by: narrator
