Christmas carol: characters- ebenezer scrooge (quotes & info.)

Question 1

what type of Victorian is scrooge?

Answer 1

archetypal rich victorian.

Question 2

what does he prioritise?

Answer 2

wealth over and above everything else.

Question 3

what does he show and to who?

Answer 3

utter disdain for the lower classes and believes poor people are lazy.

Question 4

how does dickens utilise scrooge?

Answer 4

to issue a warning to his god- fearing victorian readership: failure to ‘love thy neighbour’ in this life will result in eternal damnation.

Question 5

what does scrooge serve as?

Answer 5

uncomfortable reminder of the importance of other christian values.

Question 6

what does dickens illustrates that is dangerous?

Answer 6

failing to show unconditional love and of the failure to renunciate worldly goods.

Question 7

how is the importance of forgiveness is symbolised?

Answer 7

through scrooge and his relationships with others.

Question 8

how does dickens dramatises scrooges conversion?

Answer 8

through a cycle of acceptance.

Question 9

how does the reader watch scrooge transform?

Answer 9

he goes form a man in denial of his fate, to pleading with the spirits for an alternative future to his full transformation into a generous benefactor.

Question 10

key quote: 1. (s1.)

Answer 10

a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! hard and sharp as flint.

Question 11

key quote: 2. (s1.)

Answer 11

secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.

Question 12

key quote: 3. (s1.)

Answer 12

no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.

Question 13

key quote: 4. (s1.)

Answer 13

‘the treadmill and the poor law are in full vigour then?’

Question 14

key quote: 5. (s1.)

Answer 14

scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern.

Question 15

key quote: 6. (s2.)

Answer 15

he was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes and joys, and cares, long, long forgotten.

Question 16

key quote: 7. (s2.)

Answer 16

there was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye.

Question 17

key quote: 8. (s2.)

Answer 17

‘i (belle) have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, gain, engrosses you.’

Question 18

key quote: 9. (s2.)

Answer 18

‘another idol has displaced me (belle.)

Question 19

key quote: 10. (s2.)

Answer 19

‘no more. i do not wish to see it. show me no more.’

Question 20

key quote: 11. (s3.)

Answer 20

scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit.

Question 21

key quote: 12. (s3.)

Answer 21

scrooge was the ogre of the family.

Question 22

key quote: 13. (s3.)

Answer 22

he (scrooge) softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it (music) often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindness of life for his own happiness with his own hands.

Question 23

key quote: 14. (s4.)

Answer 23

he resolved to treasure up every word he heard and everything he saw.

Question 24

key quote: 15. (s5.)

Answer 24

he was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions.

Question 25

key quote: 16. (s5.)

Answer 25

his own heart laughed and that was quite enough for him.