Christms Carol Flashcards
Scrooge - solitary
“Solitary as an oyster”
Scrooge - cold
“He carried his own low temperature around with
him”
Scrooge - every idiot
“Every idiot who goes around with Merry Xmas on his
lips… should be buried with a stake of holly through
his heart”
Scrooge - are there no…
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
Scrooge - population
“If they would rather die, they haqd better do it and
decrease the surplus population”
Marley - i wear…
“I wear the chain I forged in life…The chain was made
up of cash boxes..ledgers..heavy purses”
Bob Cratchit - the clerks fire
“The clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal”
Bob Cratchit - my clerk with
my clerk with fifteen shillings
a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry
Christmas. I’ll retire to Bedlam”
Cratchit family - shows communal nature of the poor
“Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot, Master
Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour,
Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple sauce…”
Fred - what reason …
“What reason have
you to be morose?
You’re rich enough.”
Fred - scrooges offences
“Scrooge’s offences carry their own punishment. Who
suffers? Himself!”
Ghost of xmas past - put out the light
“Would you (Scrooge) so soon put out..the light I
give
Scrooge - flint
“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire”
Scrooge/belle- greed
What idol has replaced you? A golden one
Scrooge - shows greed / lack of christmas spirit
darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it
Scrooge - ing repetition
Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, covetous old sinner’
Scrooge - weather
No warmth could warm him, nor wintry weather chill him, no wind that blew was bitterer than he’
Cratchits/scrooge - mention of his name
The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for a full five minutes’
Scrooge - change - i am…
’ I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy
Xmas past
Like a child yet not so like a child as like a man.
Its gentle touch.
What was light at another time was dark.
Xmas present
Dark brown curls were long and free
Its cheery voice, its joyful air
Come in exclaimed the ghost, and know me better
Xmas yet to come
Phantom draped and hooded coming like a mist along the ground
Scrooges legs trembled, hardly stand when he prepared to follow it
Ghost pointed with an unmoved finger
