A Christmas Carol 8a/EN2 Flashcards
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint: secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Dickens uses a list of negative verbs to describe Scrooge.
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint: secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
The negative and strong adjects highlight Scrooge as a bad person.The simile’as solitary as an oyster’ shows hat scrooge is quite lonley and alone.
Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”
This quote shows that Scrooge is quite a grumpy and miserable person and dislikes Christmas a lot.
“every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”
This juicy quote shows that Scrooge can be quite harsh at times especially by using the verbs ‘boiled’ and ‘buried’ .These verbs show that Scrooge would want anyone that says ‘Merry Christmas’ dead by fire which is already very painful and on top of that get burried with a holly THROUGH their heart this sharply highlights how Scrooge is quit a feirce and evil.
“Are there no prisons?… “And the Union workhouses?”… “The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?”
This quote shows that Scrooge wants poor people to go to prison or Union workhouses so they have somewhere to stay, and then he added that there should be a poor law.The rehtorical question “Are there no prisons?… “And the Union workhouses?”. shows this and so does ‘Poor Law ‘.
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Shows how mean and bad Scrooge can be and how he doesn’t even care about other living humans.
I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.You will be haunted,” resumed the Ghost, “by Three Spirits.”
This quotes shows that Marley can be caring and is trying to help Scrooge so he doesn’t have the same dooming fate as him.
