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
