A Christmas Carol Flashcards
“Cold, bleak, biting weather”
Stave one used to describe the weather around Scrooges house, the weather is personified and it represents in a miserable atmosphere, there is also pathetic fallacy a tri-colon and a metaphor.
“As solitary as an oyster”
Simile, but there is a parliament oyster which could foreshadow to Scrooges personality changing later in the book. 
Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts sir.
Didactic message from Dickens about the inequality in London And the more people should give to the poor. 
Quotes about greed and money
“Oh but he was a tightfisted hand at the grindstone “-Steve one Scrooge demonstrates his misery Ways
“ what I do has replaced you?“ “a golden one”-Scrooges infatuation with money cause the end of his engagement to belle

Poverty quotes
“This boy Is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware them both.” -The children are symbolic of the suffering in poverty and I personifications of ignorance and want.
“ some slight provision for the poor destitute, who suffered greatly at the present time“- Didactic message from Dickens that we need to change the inequality and poverty in London
“A boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, Wolfisg” - Describing ignorance and want list, unpleasant aggressive words, used to make the reader feel uncomfortable and some sort of sympathy.
Isolation quotes
Dickens exposes the corrupting, alienating and, most of all isolating effects of capitalist greed to show how it can negatively affect human relationships.
“Lonely boy was reading by a feeble fire”-Describes Scrooge in his childhood, alliteration of feeble fire, reader feel sympathy for Scrooge at this point in the book.
“His face was wet with tears”-The end of Scrooges isolation
Charity
Dickens wanted to raise the question: who is responsible for looking after the poor in society? He also wanted to show that uncharitable spirit leads to loneliness while a charitable spirit leads to fulfilment.
“Decrease the surplus population”-What Scrooge said about people in poverty dying.
“He looks so irresistibly pleasant”-Shows charitable Scrooge, compares to Scrooge at the beginning”The cold within him froze his old features” 
Scrooge quotes Stave 1
“No wind that blue was better than he”
“Spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice”- Shrewdly is an adverb
“A squeezing, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous Old sinner”
Scrooge stave five quotes
“Glowing with hid good intentions”
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel”
“Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; Merrybells.-Pathetic fallacy, contrast to beginning of novel.
How does dickens show the theme of social injustice
In A Christmas Carol Dickens shows the theme of social injustice through: Scrooge refusing to give money to the poor. the characters of Ignorance and Want. thieves dividing up Scrooge’s belongings.
How does dickens present poverty in a Christmas Carol through Bob Cratchit
Poverty is represented by the character Cratchit who is Scrooge’s clerk. He symbolises their two classes through the motif of coal. Scrooge gets as much coal as he likes and gets the bucket to “top it up,” but Cratchit only gets “one piece” and daren’t ask for another in case he gets fired.
Fred
Fred – Scrooge’s nephew, the son of his sister Fran. Fred is Scrooge’s only living relative and also the only person who makes an effort to bring Scrooge out of his isolated world.
Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim is one of Bob Cratchit’s sons. He walks with a crutch and has ‘his limbs supported by an iron frame’. Despite his physical difficulties, he is a positive and generous child. He thinks of others and is well-loved by his family. He is used by Dickens to present the more unfortunate in society still having a positive outlook that all of society should aim to achieve, he creates sympathy and sadness and empathy in the audience for People in poverty
Mr Fezziwig in a Christmas Carol
Fezziwig, fictional character, the generous employer of the young Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. Fezziwig appears early in the story, during Scrooge’s encounter with the Ghost of Christmas Past. He is involved in a part of Scrooges live with Scrooges happier and more generous, cheerful person, he helps show the audience what Scrooge could be like and the potential Scrooge has.
Lonely boy was reading by a feeble fire
Stave 2 aboit Scrooge ISOLATION
