Christmas Carol Quotes (stave 2) Flashcards
This says that scrooge lives in a basic small room in a big house
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’
Marley is dead to….
‘Marley was dead, to begin with’
Talks about how lonely scrooge and Marley is
sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’
Scrooge seeing visions of marley
‘not a knocker, but Marley’s face’
Scrooge cannot be bothered to buy lighting but likes the darkness
‘Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.
This talks about Marley’s chain
‘The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’
Talks about what is made out of Marley’s chain
‘It was long…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and
heavy purses wrought in steel’
Telling scrooge that hishus par
‘In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley’
Talks about doom
Condemned’ ‘Doomed to wander through the world’
Marley telling scrooge that he made the mistakes
I wear the chain I forged in life’
Made link by link
I made it link by link’
Talks about a strong coil
Would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear
yourself?’
Tells scrooge that mankind
Mankind was my business’
Tells scrooge that he will be haunted
You will be haunted by Three Spirits’
The phantoms flying around in the air
The air was filled with phantoms… moaning as they went’