A Xmas Carol quotes Flashcards
Charity / Scrooge
If they would rather die, they has better do it and decrease the surplus population.
Shows Dicken’s message. Shows Scrooge as a cold, heartless character.
Regret / redemption
I wear the chain I forged in life - Marley
Regrets being obsessed with money. The chain is made from keys, padlocks etc.
Marley / ghosts
Mankind was my business - Marley
Noun: mankind. Links to Dicken’s message that everyone is equal, no matter what class, gender etc.
Marley / ghosts
Like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man (of the first ghost)
Extended metaphor: Scrooge is an old man but he needs to learn and be reborn.
Marley / ghosts
Scrooge observed its light was high and bright… he seized the extinguisher cap
Light represents the truth, Scrooge doesn’t want to see it.
Scrooge
As solitary as an oyster
Simile. Foreshadows that Scrooge will change, as inside an oyster is a pearl. Oysters are also commonly found alone.
Scrooge
A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
Feels guilty for Scrooge. Repetition of solitary from Chapter 1. Shows Scrooge hasn’t changed, OR his childhood made him who he is.
‘I am thankful to bear your company, and do it with a thankful heart’
Scrooge, stave 4. Scrooge has changed, he wants to become a better man.
He lay, in the dark empty house, with not a man, a woman or a child
Scrooge is unloved, even in death.
I will honour Christmas in my heart,… I will live in the past, present and future
Scrooge is changing. Tone of desperation, he has learnt from all the ghosts.
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel
Juxtaposes other similarities in Stave 1. Shows change.
I’m quite a baby
Metaphor for being reborn
And to tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father
Scrooge got his family after all.
