Christmas carol Flashcards
What are the 2 types of rich that dickens portrays in a christmas carol
Rich in possessions
Rich in heart
What link can be made when scrooge says - ‘I am as light as a feather’
In Egyptian mythology, after you die, your heart is weighed, and if it is heavier than a feather, then you are sent to hell
Scrooge feels freed from his damnation
What does onus mean
Burden
What is scrooge’s haramrtia
He doesnt believe he deserves love
What is evidence that scrooge beleives he doesn’t deserve love
He is excited by nostalgia, when taken back to fezziwig etc. showing that he wants love
He is afraid of affection, becuase everyone he has ever loved has left him
Which two people did scrooge love. and what happened to both of them
His sister fan - she died
His lover belle - she left him
How does scrooge’s abusive father affect him
He has never known love that lasted, Fan and Belle both left, and his father does not love him
“might have called him father, and been a springtime in the haggard winter of his life”
scrooge sees the life that belle now lives, and realises what he could have had. He burns with longing for this opportunity which he wasted because of money
“I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value”
Scrooge wishes he had a child, but feels he does not deserve one
“not very large or handsome, but full of comfort”
When scrooge visits his ex fiance’s new wife
Shows that family > money
plethora of food, “great joints of meat, sucking pigs” in the 3rd stave
Challenges scrooges upper class view on the surplus population, and shows that, if everyone exercises generosity, there is enough food to go around.
“it is a ponderous chain”
ponder - “marley has to think and reflect on his past crimes for the rest of time”
“to bring you home, home, home!”
asyndetic list, triplets, she is so focused on getting him home it is all she can think about
Who is scrooge’s foil?
Fezziwig
“there was nothing they wouldn’t have cleared away, or couldn’t have cleared away”
Fezziwig sacrifices work for festivities, the complete opposite of scrooge.
