A Christmas Carol Key Quotes Flashcards
‘a _________, wrenching, grasping…. _______ old ______’
Stave _
‘a squeezing, wrenching, grasping…. covetous old sinner’ Stave 1
- list of adjectives
- shows how harsh and miserly he is
‘_______ as an ______’ Stave 1
‘Solitary as an oyster’ Stave 1
- Simile
- He is always alone and shut off from society and human contact
‘heat ___ ____ had little ________ on Scrooge’ Stave _
‘heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge’ Stave 1
- Metaphor
- Never shows any emotion as metaphorically he has a cold heart so people can’t alter him
‘Are _____ __ prisons…. workhouses?’ Stave 1
‘Are there no prisons…. work houses?’ Stave 1
- Emotive language
- Thinks these are the right places for the poor - shows lack of social responsibility
’ If they ____ ______ ___, they had better do it ___ ________ the surplus _________’ Stave 1
’ If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’ Stave 1
- Emotive language
- Echoes the Thomas Malthus (English economist) views that population will always outweigh the supply of food
‘Scrooge took his _________ dinner in his _____ __________ tavern’ Stave _
‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’ Stave 1
-Emotive language
- He is presented as lonely and sad
- Contrasts the sociability of Christmas
’ cash-boxes, ____, padlocks, ________’ Stave _
‘cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers’ Stave 1
- list of objects associated with money (Marley carries his and Scrooges greed with him to the afterlife)
’ _ ____ the chain I ______ in life. I ____ __ link by link, and ____ by ____’ Stave 1
‘I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard’ Stave 1
- The repeated nouns ‘link’ and ‘yard’ emphasise Marley’s burden
- Shows the consequence of his miserliness and how Scrooge now has a choice to change his ways or end up like Marley
’ I cannot ____, I cannot ____, I cannot ______ anywhere.’ Stave 1
’ I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere’ Stave 1
- Repetition of ‘I cannot’ highlights Marley’s restricted existence
- Illusion to Cain and Able - Cain banished to wonder the earth for eternity
‘No ______ implored him __ ______ a trifle’ Stave 1
‘No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle’ Stave 1
- Beggars didn’t ask him for money but avoided him = shows what society thinks of Scrooge
- Many were extremely poor in these Victorian times which shows how miserly Scrooge is that even those in desperate need don’t approach him
‘every _____ who goes about with _____ _______ on his lips should be boiled with his own ______ and buried with a _____ of _____ through his heart’ Stave _
‘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’
- Scrooge’s response is comical but unpleasant
- Can’t accept the generosity shown by Fred so turns Christmas into an image of violence
‘like a _____: yet not so like a _____ __ ____ an old man’ Stave 2
‘like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man’ Stave 2
- GOCP recalls several ages which foreshadows the journey the ghost will take him on
- Oxymoron - shows how our past informs our future
’ A ______ _____ neglected by his friends….. And he sobbed’ Stave _
’ A solitary child neglected by his friends….And he sobbed’ Stave 2
- adjective ‘solitary’ shows Scrooge hasn’t changed
- Scrooge’s emotional outburst = transformation
‘Nothing. There was _ ___ singing a _______ _____ at my door last night. _ _____ like to have _____ him something: that’s all’ Stave 2
‘Nothing. There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that’s all’ Stave 2
- Shows Scrooge’s transformation
- Showing a more empathetic and reflective disposition (understands other peoples feelings and emotions)
‘clapping her ____ ______, ……. ______ is so much kinder _____ __ used to be’ Stave 2
’ clapping her tiny hands, …… Father is so much kinder than he used to be’ Stave 2
- Fan is a figure of innocence loved by Scrooge
- Scrooge was moved to a boarding school away from family life - context = Dickens sister sent to royal academy of music (while father was in prison for debt) = his education suffered
‘________ all over himself, from his ______ to his ______ of benevolence….. oily, ____, fat,________ voice’ Stave _
‘laughed all over himself from his shoes to his organ of benevolence….. oily, rich, fat, jovial voice’ Stave 2
- laughed from his shoes to his brain
- Shows how jolly he is = foil of Scrooge
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‘In came the housemaid with ____ ______, the baker. __ _____ the cook’ Stave 2
‘In came the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker. In came the cook’ Stave 2
- Political diatribe
- The Fezziwig’s invite all classes equally
