Death Theme Flashcards
1st point
a catalyst to provoke Scrooge’s change
‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business.’
Q4
He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha!’
Q2
‘Bob held his withered little hand to his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken’
Q5
2) shows how characters impact eachother
2
‘If he had been, he’d have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying gasping out his last there, alone by himself
Q1
‘Not a man, a Woman, or a child to say he was kind…gnawing rats beneath the hearthstone…so restless and disturbed’
Q3
“Mrs Cratchit kissed him, his daughters kissed him, the two young Cratchit’s kissed him, and Peter… Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!’
Q6
3rd point
Didactic purposes
‘Surplus population.’ ‘Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quotes by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence’
Q7
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want, beware of them both…most of all beware of the boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom’
Q8