Christmas Carol Flashcards
1
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Unchanged Scrooge Quotes
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- “Decrease the surplus population” - Thomas Mathus
- “the master passion, Gain”
- ” covetous old sinner”
- “man of wordly mind” (said by Marley)
2
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Poverty and Social Responsibility quotes
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- Dickens says some of the chained phantoms might be “guilty governments” (unfair treatment of poor; 1834 Poor Law)
- Ignorance and Want decribed as “horrible” - society’s neglect of the poor
- Ignorance will lead to “doom”
- Living in poverty - “brave in ribbons” and “small” pudding
3
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Family quotes (happiness of family life)
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- Fred’s laughter “irresistably contaigious”
- Family is full of “joy, gratitude and ecstasy”
4
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Family quotes (isolation)
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- Scrooge’s past self decribed as him being “a solitary child” and “neglected”
- Thieves call Scrooge a “wicked old screw”
5
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Family (Scrooge’s capability to change)
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- Fan says that the family home is “like heaven”
- Scrooge becomes a “second father” to Tiny Tim
6
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Redemption
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- “free will”
- Scrooge is concerned he is “past all hope”
- Scrooge says “I’m quite a baby” suggesting he is reborn
- At the start he was “warning all human sympathy to keep its distance”
- Nearing the end of the play he had “an interest he had never felt before”
- “heartily sorry” for the death of Tiny Tim
7
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Changed Scrooge quotes
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- “I’m quite a baby”
8
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Marley’s Ghost
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- Wears “the chains I forged in life”
- “no rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse”
- “Mankind was my business”
9
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Tiny Tim
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- “God bless us”
- “My little little child”
10
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Christmas Past
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“Softening influence”
11
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Christmas Present
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- “antique scabbard” + “ eaten up with rust”
- “kind, generous, hearty nature”
12
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Christmas Yet to come
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- “shrouded in a deep, black garment
- approaches Scrooge “slowly, gravely, silently”
- “I am not the man I was” (Scrooge)
