Compassion Flashcards
‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching old sinner’
L - listing of verbs
Scrooge is described as a character who focuses on maximising his profit and not caring how he exploits his workers.
‘I can’t afford to make idle people merry’
L - verb
L - adjective
Scrooge believes the poor are idle and it is their own business to look after themselves. He chooses to not help them as he thinks that it is not his responsibility.
‘are there no prisons? are there no workhouses’
L - rhetorical questions
When the Ghost of Christmas Present throws Scrooge’s own words back at him, Scrooge realises he has chosen not to help the poor in the past and think the prisons or workhouses should look after them. He feels guilty for making such choices after seeing Ignorance and Want.
‘I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried’
‘who suffers by his ill whims? Himself’
L - modal verb
Fred describes how he forgives Scrooge for his unpleasant behaviours and attitude towards him as he feels sorry for Scrooge because his frugality only punishes himself.
‘I am the most disinterested among you’
L - adjective
Scrooge’s most particular friend has no interest in attending his funeral creates pathos and makes the readers feel pity for Scrooge as he does not have people who feel compassion towards his death.
‘every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did’
The charwoman does not feel sorry stealing from Scrooge as she thinks that she has a right to take care of herself just like Scrooge has.
‘like to have given him something’
L - present perfect tense
Scrooge wishes he has treated the carol singing boy differently when he was at his door. He regrets the way he treated him.
‘if he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population’
‘overcome with penitence and grief’
L - nouns
Scrooge feels guilt hearing his own words said by the Ghost of the Presence when he knows that Tiny Tim will die in the future.
‘I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family’
Scrooge feels sympathy for the struggling poor so he decides to help the Cratchits by raising Bob’s salary.
