A Christmas Carol - Ebenezer Scrooge

Question 1

S1 - How does he treat his office clerk, Bob Cratchit?

Answer 1

Badly - makes him work in the cold and fear for his job

Question 2

S1 - What is he like to his nephew, Fred?

Answer 2

He is antagonistic to Fred, who visits him at work to wish him a merry Christmas

Question 3

S1 - What is his response to the charity collectors?

Answer 3

‘If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

Question 4

S1 - Who is he visited by, and what is his message to Scrooge?

Answer 4

Visited by his late partner, Jacob Marley who tells jim his focus on money is wrong.

Question 5

S2 - How does he feel when during the visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past?

Answer 5

Begins to realise he has made bad choices

Question 6

S3 - What are his emotions during the visit from Ghost of Christmas Present?

Answer 6

He enjoys the present Christmas, especially the celebrations at the Cratchits’ and Fred’s houses.

Question 7

S4 - How does he feel when he finds out no one will care about him dying?

Answer 7

He is horrified that if he continues to act so wrongfully that no one will care about him, and Tiny Tim will end up dying.

Question 8

S5 - What is the summary of Scrooge’s character now?

Answer 8

He is reformed. He changes his behaviour (instantly) and supports the Cratchit family.

Question 9

What is Scrooge’s importance to the novella?

Answer 9

• Central Protagonist
• We see how everything affects him
• DIckens shows how each scene that Scrooge is shown by the Ghosts changes him, until his final transformation.

Question 10

POINT - Dickens makes it very clear that Scrooge is mean both with his money and his dealings with others

Answer 10

• Scrooge is ‘Hard and sharp as flint’ (p. 2)

- Suggestive of his ability to hurt others

Question 11

POINT - He used to know how to have fun

Answer 11

• At Fezziwigs’s party (pp. 30-34) the young Scrooge is full of energy and enthusiasm.
• The old Scrooge learns from this scene, there is hope for him.

Question 12

POINT - By the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Present the change is clear to see

Answer 12

• ‘Scrooge entered timidly, and hung his head before the spirit. He was not the dogged Scrooge he had been’ (p. 42)
• The verb ‘timidly’ contrasts with his confident rejection of the visitors at his office and the narrator clearly indicates that the change has started.