A Christmas Carol Flashcards
Scrooges view on poor people
Trigger words:Decrease Population
“If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
Emotive Language
Marley’s guilt
Trigger words:Chain
”I wear the chain I forged in life”
Chain:Symbolism
Whole quote:Metaphor
Trigger words:Ignorance Want
“The boy is ignorance and the girl is want”
Boy is symbolism for rich people
Girl is symbolism for greed how rich people want more
Trigger words:Flint
”Hard and sharp as flint”
Simile
Trigger words:Light
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy…..”
Simile
Trigger words:Oyster
“Solitary as an oyster”
Simile
Trigger word:Darkness
”Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it”
Symbolises Scrooges choice to live cut off from other people
Trigger word:Laughed
“His own heart laughed”
Personification
Trigger word:Light
”The light shone out of the ghost of christmas past”
The light is Symbolism
Trigger word:Happiness
“The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune”
Hyperbole
Trigger word:Gain
”Gain engrosses you”
Metaphor
Trigger word:Gold
As good as gold
Simile
Trigger word:Covetous
“Covetous old sinner”
Epithet
Trigger word:Grindstone
“Tight fisted hand at the grindstone”
Metaphor
Scrooges relentless dedication to work as a grindstone is a device used to sharpen tools by grinding them against its surface
Form of A Christmas Carol
-Novella(can be read as a carol hence the title a christmas carol”
-Dickens has called each section a stave instead of a chapter a stave is 5 lines where in the novella there are 5 chapters
-Prose(natural flow)
Structure of A Christmas Carol
-Mimics the way a musical piece is put together
-5 clear staves which is compelling because a stave is 5 lines
-Links to the theme of christmas by reflecting the typical shape of a carol
-Scrooge’s redemption at the end leaves the reader with a sense of completion
Context of A Christmas Carol
Poverty and charity
There was a belief that poor people were lazy so many of the rich were willingly ignorant
Capitalism vs socialism
Scrooge was a capitalist and Dickens was a socialist
Portly gentlemen
They symbolise intense philanthropy
Religion
Victorian society is very religious which includes shops and leisure time on sunday however Scrooge disagreed with this as the author disagreed with blue laws
Poverty and charity
There was a belief that poor people were lazy so many of the rich were willingly ignorant
Capitalism vs socialism
Scrooge was a capitalist and Dickens was a socialist
Portly gentlemen
They symbolise intense philanthropy
Religion
Victorian society is very religious which includes shops and leisure time on sunday however Scrooge disagreed with this as the author disagreed with blue laws
