ACC Theme Quotes Flashcards
Ghosts and the Supernatural
“Marley was dead to begin with. There was no doubt whatsoever about that(….) There is no doubt that Marley was dead”
“There was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door”“Not a knocker but Marley’s face”
“Bear but a touch of my hand there and you shall be upheld in more than this”
“Leave me! Take me back! Haunt me no longer!”
“They were patient in their greater hope; by poverty and it was rich”
“It had undergone a surprising transformation”
“The spirits of all three shall strive within me”
“Assured they must have some hidden purpose he set himself to consider what it was”
“For his own improvement he resolved to treasure up every word he heard”
Greed
“Another idol has displaced me” “A golden one”
“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, gain, engrosses you”
“I am not changed towards you” She shook her head “Am I?”
“When we were both poor and content to be so”
“You are changed”
“How promised happiness when we were me in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two”
“There was an eager, greedy, restless, motion in the eye, that showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall”
Social injustice and Poverty
“They are mans (….) this boy is ignorance. This girl is want.”
“It brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable”
“A stable and shrivelled hand, liker hat of age, had pinched and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
“If they had rather die than they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
Family
“God bless us everyone!”
“Nobody said or thought it was a small pudding for a large family. It would have been flat out heresy to do so”
“Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him”
Christmas and Joy
“There sat a jolly giant glorious to see”
“I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year”
“A merry Christmas to us all my dears”
“I am as merry as a school boy”
Victorian and Christian family context
Idealised and traditional
Large families
Charity, forgiveness, giving
Bob represents forgiveness
Tim represents hope
“Saw him in the Church because he was a cripple” reminder of who “made lame beggars walk” and “blind men see”
Christmas context
Fezziwigs Party
Char hits house
Christmas Carol refers to carol singing and spreading Christmas joy and spirit
Present spirit represents Santa Clause and childlike joy
