Cold

Question 1

Topic sentence about stave 1 cold

Answer 1

Conceit(extended metaphor) of the relentless cold holds parallels to scourges distant and cold attitudes

Question 2

Internal apathy and detachment is so omnipotent, it alters his physical appearance

Answer 2

“The cold within him froze his old features”
“Frosty rime”

Question 3

Successful in his ostracization

Answer 3

Even elements of nature , typically uncontrollable, he has managed to intercept as even “ External heat and cold had little influence”

Question 4

Emblem (symbol) of Victorian upper class

Answer 4

Archetypal villian in context of impoverished society

Question 5

Quotes that shows he’s an emblem

Answer 5

“Squeezing , wrenching , grasping , clutching , covetous , old sinner “
seven adjectives and white to the seven deadly sins- rich are the real sinner not the poor

Question 6

Malthusian views - doesn’t regard poor with any humanity, just as numbers contributing to ‘surplus population’

Answer 6

“Are there no prisons?…and the union workhouses?”

Question 7

Dickens intentions

Answer 7

Critique, from the offset, that social injustice is synonymous with the avariciousness (greed) from the upper-class

Question 8

Setting

Answer 8

The weather is a motif (recurring symbol) throughout the novella , typically changing alongside Scrooge

Question 9

“Fog and darkness thickened”

Answer 9

Resembles bleakness of the protagonist
Context-fog in London 1873-1879 killed hundreds - the weather has the ability to destroy lives, the rich posses this same power

Question 10

“Piercing, searching, biting cold”

Answer 10

Personification make sure that the power of the nature may be an allusion to the forthcoming supernatural powers to come

Question 11

“ oh! But he was a tightfisted hand at the grindstone, screwed? Squeezing wrenching grasping scraping clutching covetous old sinner

Answer 11

Narrative oh suggest that even the narrator is overwhelmed by how unpleasant he is. The adjectives are semantically linked by the hand this shows how tiny Scrooge hold onto things possibly his traumatic past. screwed single-minded focus is on loud squeezes the money out of people grasp of the script some more to benefit himself and convets what he doesn’t have. The seven verbs are synonymous of the seven deadly sins this shows that the rich are the problem not the poor. The verbs have an onomatopoeic feeling associated with greed which reflects Dickens presenting Scrooge as a caricature for greed