A Christmas Carol Flashcards
Responsibility - Malthusianism
They had better [die] and decrease the surplus population
Responsibility - Marley
I wear the chain I forged in life
Responsibility - Fezziwig’s use
power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil
Responsibility - Tiny Tim’s future
If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die
Responsibility - writing metaphor
written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased
Responsibility - Scrooge and Tiny Tim
To Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father
Responsibility - Marley’s business
Mankind was my business
Responsibility - Question about poor
Are there no prison?
Poverty - clerk’s fire
clerk’s fire […] looked like one coal, But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his room
Poverty - Scrooge selfish
I can’t afford to make idle people merry
Poverty - blaming Spirit
You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day
Poverty - Mrs Cratchit
dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for six pence
Poverty - personification of food
chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked nosily
Poverty - Ignorance and Want
Yellow, meagre, ragged, scrowling, wolfish
Poverty - obscure part…
obscure part of the town […] Scrooge had never penetrated before
Isolation - simile at the start
as solitary as an oyster
Isolation - childhood
A solitary child, neglected by his friends
Isolation - Fred on about Scrooge’s rejection
He loses some pleasant memories
Isolation - who …?
who suffers by his ill whims?
Greed - simile at the start
Hard and sharp as flint
Greed - Scrooge on about Christmas
poor excuse of picking a man’s pocket
Greed - Belle argued with Scrooge
What Idol has displaced you? […] A golden one
Greed - funeral
I don’t mind going if lunch is provided
Transformation - Scrooge willing to learn
if you aught to teach me, let me profit by it
Transformation - similes at the end
I am as light as a feather. I am as happy as an angel. I am as merry as a schoolboy.
Transformation - cyclical contrast of weather
foggy, withal vs No fog, no mist; clear, bright
Christmas - Fred’s speech
a kind, forgiving, charitable time
Christmas Spirit - Fezziwig
The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it costs a fortune
Poverty - Cratchits’ dinner
Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family
Christmas Spirit - Tiny Tim
God bless us
Christmas Spirit - Ghost of Christmas Present
a jolly Giant, glorious to see, who bore a glowing torch
Poverty - poor going to bakery
innumerable people emerged from bye-streets, lanes, nameless turnings
When was it set?
1843, after Industrial Revolution
Transformation - Scrooge’s laugh
for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh
Transformation - cyclical attitude to Christmas
Bah… Humburg! vs Merry Christmas!
Fred - against winter
He has so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost
Fred - not greedy
though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has me done good
Fred - not angry about Scrooge
left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding
Fred - welcome Scrooge
Why bless my soul! […] It’s a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off.
Transformation - Scrooge treating Bob kindly
I’ll raise your salary […] Make up the fires and buy another coal-scuttle
Change - not believe in Marley’s Ghost
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato
Change - changed by Marley
tried to say ‘Humburg’ but stopped at the first syllabe
Change - want to escape his past
seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head
Change - leave but learn lesson
In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me
Change - doesn’t know the purpose of the Spirit
Why do you delight to torture me?
Change - remember all lessons
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The spirits of All Three shall strive within me.
Change - city know his change
as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, borough, in the good old world
Family - Scrooge wants Fred to go away
I want nothing from you; I ask nothing from you; why cannot we be friends?
Family - Little Fan
Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven
Family - Cratchits struggling but still happy
They were not a handsome family; they were not well-dressed; thier shoes were far from being water-proof […] But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another
Family - Bob crying
My little, little child!
Family - Scrooge engaged in family
Wonderful party, wonder games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness
Family - Scrooge not in family
in the dark empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child, to say that he was kind
