A Christmas Carol - Ebenezer Scrooge Flashcards
S1 - How does he treat his office clerk, Bob Cratchit?
Badly - makes him work in the cold and fear for his job
S1 - What is he like to his nephew, Fred?
He is antagonistic to Fred, who visits him at work to wish him a merry Christmas
S1 - What is his response to the charity collectors?
‘If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
S1 - Who is he visited by, and what is his message to Scrooge?
Visited by his late partner, Jacob Marley who tells jim his focus on money is wrong.
S2 - How does he feel when during the visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past?
Begins to realise he has made bad choices
S3 - What are his emotions during the visit from Ghost of Christmas Present?
He enjoys the present Christmas, especially the celebrations at the Cratchits’ and Fred’s houses.
S4 - How does he feel when he finds out no one will care about him dying?
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.
S5 - What is the summary of Scrooge’s character now?
He is reformed. He changes his behaviour (instantly) and supports the Cratchit family.
What is Scrooge’s importance to the novella?
- 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.
POINT - Dickens makes it very clear that Scrooge is mean both with his money and his dealings with others
- Scrooge is ‘Hard and sharp as flint’ (p. 2)
- Suggestive of his ability to hurt others
POINT - He used to know how to have fun
- 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.
POINT - By the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Present the change is clear to see
- ‘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.
