Ebenezer Scrooge Flashcards
What is Scrooge a symbol of?
victorian capitalism
What sentiment does Scrooge seem to echo?
Malthusianism
What is Scrooge in terms of being an employer?
avaricious
A word beginning with M to describe Scrooge?
misanthropic
A word beginning with I to describe Scrooge?
isolated
To do with money to describe hoarding, what is Scrooge?
miser
What has Scrooge done by the end of A Christmas Carol?
redeemed himself
What is Scrooge a caricature of?
archetypal businessman
What can Scrooge evoke?
dissaproval and sympathy
Who does Scrooge wish to help? HINT: member of the Cratchit family.
Tiny Tim
Who’s death is presented near the end of A Christmas Carol, who Scrooge is shocked by?
Scrooge
What does Scrooge question is present, while talking to the Carolers?
the Poor Law and Workhouses
How does Scrooge react to his past?
he is upset and weeps
What can Scrooge be connotated as through Page 2 description in Stave 1?
cold-hearted
What technique for structure that is seen through Scrooge?
semantic field
What will Scrooge live in, in terms of Spirits?
the Past, the Present and the Future
What will Scrooge honour near the end of Stave 4, the answer is the quote?
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.’
