Bob Key Quotes And Themes Flashcards
What is the purpose of Bob cratchit and his family?
Dickens scathing critique of the systematic injustices victorian Society is personified through the blind gratitude of those who exploit and oppress them.
Bob Cratchit is used to symbolise morality and communal values juxtaposing being lower class which is normally used as lazy and immoral . Subverting the typical view.
Bob is a microcosm of the exploded poor. He’s benevolent, yet subjected to immense, and just suffering to humanise the struggles of the working class, and prompt the readers to reconsider societal misconceptions regarding poverty.
Suffering of the poor unimaginable when given in a wide scale, so it’s humanised by the cratchits
What word is Bob referred to by Scrooge and stave one?- “C..”
“Clerk”
What themes link to the quote “Clerk”
Selfishness / materialism
Social injustice / poverty
What quote does Bob say in stave 3 about Scrooge to show his selflessnes: “I’ll g…. y… Mr Scrooge t… f…… o.. t… f…..”
“I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast!”
What themes are used in the quote “I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast!”
Selfishness / materialism
Sociak injustice and poverty
Kindess / family
What is the significance of the connotation of “founder” in “I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast!”
The term “founder” connotes creatorship, reflecting how Bob perceives Scrooge with a Godlike greatness. Despite being exploited by him.
This is reinforced through the gratitude towards a “goose”, using the superlative “rarest “despite the irony that this is a cheap bird that replaced turkey in the Victorian era
This is all done as a critique of the power balance in a Victorian society.
What is the significance of the exclamative sentence in “I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast!”
Emphasises excitement, and gratitude
What is the difference in superiorities between the Cratchits and Scrooge.
Scrooge is materially superior whereas Bob is morally superior.
