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Christmas Carol Flashcards

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Bob being cold

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‘He tried to warm himself at the candle’
- sense of helplessness

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Bob being nice to Scrooge

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‘I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast’
- Bob’s patience and compassion, elevating Scrooge’s position and attributing importance to him

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Pudding at Cratchit’s family (2)

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  1. ‘Oh what a wonderful pudding!’ - highlights Bob’s appreciation for his family
  2. ‘Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family’ - be grateful what what we have
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Description of Bob’s workplace

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‘Dismal little cell’ - it is like a prison for him

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Family sense in Cratchit’s family

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‘Mrs Cratchit made the gravy…Master Peter mashed the potatoes…Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce’ - unity of family and the intention of the author to reform how Christmas is celebrated

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Bob’s job

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‘The Clerk’ - highlights how the lower - class didn’t have an individual identity

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Bob’s wage

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‘Bob had but fifteen ‘Bob’ a-week himself’ - importance of power and money over the lower classes

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Bob about the slide

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‘Went 20 times down the slide’

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Scrooge seafood

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‘As solitary as an oyster’ - very isolated from society

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Scrooge about the prisons

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‘Are there no prisons?’ - no distinction between the lower class and criminals

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Scrooge portrayed stubborn

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‘No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him’ - cannot change, stubborn

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Scrooge about population

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‘Decrease the surplus population’

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Scrooge (biblical quote)

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‘Covetous old sinner’ - Christian redemption by the end of novella through ghosts

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Scrooge fear asking the spirit not to haunt him anymore

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-“Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!”

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Scrooge to Fred

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  • Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry?
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Fred about the importance of money

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  • “What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.”
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Marley’s ghost about responsibility

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‘Mankind was my business’

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Marley warning Scrooge

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‘I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate’

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Belle about Scrooge

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‘I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you’

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Belle’s husband to Belle about Scrooge:

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“Quite alone in the world”

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Ghost of Christmas present

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‘Sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch’

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Tiny Tim’s death - Ghost Christmas present

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‘’If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”

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Ignorance and want

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“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.”

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Scrooge to ghost of Christmas yet

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“I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.”

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Two business colleagues

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‘’It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral,” … ‘’I don’t know of anybody to go to it.”

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Scrooge seeing his own body

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‘’The case of this unhappy man might be my own.’’

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Scrooge reflects

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“I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

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Scrooge gains happiness

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‘’I am as light as a feather, I am a happy as an angel’’

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Christmas from Scrooge

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“He knew how to keep Christmas well’’

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Tiny Tim behaviour

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‘As good as gold’

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Poverty in Cratchit’s family

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‘Brave in ribbons’ - Mrs Cratchit

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Love in Cratchit’s family (2)

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  1. ‘Kissing her a dozen times’
  2. ‘Chairs for everybody’
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Description of Christmas past

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‘It was a strange figure - like a child: yet not so like a child’

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Ghost of Christmas past - Christianity

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‘It wore a tunic of the purest white’

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Christmas from ghost of past

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‘Branch of fresh green holly’

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Ghost of Christmas past not lasting

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‘Figure itself fluctuated’

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Ghost of Christmas present brings happiness (2)

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  1. ‘Crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy’
  2. ‘Sympathy with all poor men’
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Ghost of Christmas present mocking Scrooge (2)

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  1. ‘Are there no prisons?…are there no workhouses?’ - reflects Scrooge’s words back
  2. ‘I see a vacant seat. The child will die.’
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Scrooge to the ghost of Christmas yet

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‘I fear you more than any Spectre I have seen’

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Scrooge was given control from ghost of Christmas yet

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  1. ‘The spirit neither spoke nor move’
  2. ‘It gave him no reply’
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Spirit is always stronger than humans (ghost of Christmas yet)

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‘The spirit, stronger yet, repulsed him’

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Fred about family (2)

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  1. ‘I mean to give him the same chance every year whether he likes it or not’
  2. ‘Let him in’
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Fred cheerful about Christmas

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‘Christmas as a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time’

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Tiny Tim Christianity

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‘God bless us everyone’

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Christmas spirit from Fezziwig (2)

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  1. ‘Comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice’
  2. ‘No more work tonight, Christmas Eve’
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Fezziwig being a good person

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‘…shaking hands with every person individually’

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Father figure (2)

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‘Tell me if Tiny Tim will live’
‘Second father’
= patriarchy society, males need to be more present in family duties

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Interpretations (7)

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  • father figure
  • education in stave 3 -> educate poor to prevent revolution
  • Scrooge is a general employer - actually pays Bob the same as other employers would
  • people are not paid enough to survive, even criminals are not (Joe writes on the board with a chulk)
  • the daughter that Scrooge cannot have with Belle, mimics how father pushed Scrooge away
  • Scrooge chose someone who is much more likely to abandoned him just as his father abandoned him, as he is much older than Belle, mother and sister abandoned him. Reunited with Fred -> phycological healing from abandonment
  • Dickens offering hope after death and loneliness

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