English Acc Flashcards
It describes Scrooge’s attitude towards christmas.Shows he is a protagonist
‘Bah Humbug’
It gets the reader thinking who is the character as this is said in the first line in the play.
‘MARLEY was dead’
A simile, that tells the reader that it is unwanted and unused.It gives an insight to what is thought of Scrooge.
‘Dead as a doornail’
It is a literary reference to another novel written by William Shakespeare.
‘Hamlet’s father’
It is repeated in the opening stave of the novel as Scrooge is not caring what a couple of gentlemen have to say.It might be seen as sarcasm.
‘Good afternoon’
Well, when you put it that way, even Scrooge himself has some supernatural qualities, no? Why is this description so overblown—why not describe Scrooge as a nasty old man, instead of the very personification of coldness?
‘But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’
They were a boy and girl.A stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds.
‘Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask,” said Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit’s robe, “but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?’
Dickens uses similes to emphasise and exaggerate.
‘Hard and sharp as flint’
what you get when you don’t specify the kind of emotion you want the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come to show you. Scrooge’s death brings a feeling of relief to this family, because he won’t come banging on their door, demanding they pay up on their old loans anymore.
it was a happier house for this man’s death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure. ‘
A chain isn’t something that is imposed on bad people in the afterlife, but is instead created with “free will.” In other words, be nice, dear Shoppers, or you’ll wear chains forever.
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?”
Scrooge begins to rethink his past choices, but hey, it’s a start.
“What is the matter?” asked the Spirit.
“Nothing,” said Scrooge. “Nothing. There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that’s all.”
The spirit uses words from Scrooge in the begging.
“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.
“Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?
Scrooge pays money to charity
“Lord bless me!” cried the gentleman, as if his breath were taken away. “My dear Mr. Scrooge, are you serious?”
“If you please,” said Scrooge. “Not a farthing less. A great many back-payments are included in it, I assure you. Will you do me that favor
The cratchits family is introduced.
They are religious.
‘Merry christmas to us all, my dear.God bless us!’
A semantic field
Food/poverty
Second ghost,Ghost of Christmas present
Stave 3
‘Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.’
