Ebenezer Scrooge Flashcards
asyndetic list reflect misery, selfishness and an unlikeable character
“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”
Simile highlights Scrooge’s isolation and darkness
“Solitary as an oyster”
Stave 1 2 quotes showing Scrooge being cheap
“Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller it looked like ome coal”
“A poor exuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fith of December”
Stave 1 Scrooge showing issolation
“As solitary as an oyster”
Stave 1 Scrooge looking down on the poor
“Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller it looked like ome coal”
“Are there no prisons? … And the union workhouses?”
“Decrease the surplus population”
Stave 1 Scrooge showing greed
“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” - asynthetic list.
Stave 2 scrooge showing issolation in his childhood
“At one of these a lonley boy was reading near a feeble fire”
Stage 2 Scrooge shows regret and change for his actions
“Say a word or two to his clerk right now”
Stave 1 scrooge shows his stubborn and cold nature
“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him”
Stave 1 Scrooges attitueds towards christmas spirit
“Every idiot who goes around sith ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and burried with a stake of holly through his heart” - gruesome description highlights how much he hates christmas
Stave 5 Scrooge shows his improved attitude towards Christmas
Scrooge “knew how to keep christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge”
Polarised presentation of Scrooge’s character shows his extream change
