English Lit Quotes

Question 1

Quotes for the cratchit family?

Answer 1

• “I’ll give you mr scrooge the founder of the feast”
• “family display of glass, two tumblers and a custard cup without a handle”
• “Bob served it out with beaming looks”

Question 2

Quotes for the theme isolation?

Answer 2

• “ nobody ever stopped him in the street to say…..’’my dear Scrooge, how are you?’”
• “secret and self contained and solitary as an oyster”
• “ a solitary child. Neglected by his friends, is left there still” - stave 2

Question 3

A Christmas carol context

Answer 3

• born into a middle class family: lucky enough to go to school
• father imprisoned for debts
• felt troubled by the growing divide between the rich and poor
• he saw first hand the impact of the gov. Decision on the poor
• cover bed by the lack of understanding and compassion from the aristocracy + gov
• wanted to encourage a more unified and empathetic society that supported rather than vilifying its most vulnerable members

Question 4

Dickens message

Answer 4

• often uses Scrooge as a mouthpiece to express the more callous justifications and excuses used to defend the harsh treatment of the poor
• reaching the realities of the life in poverty + how the rich society make this happen
• highlight that all of us are human beings regardless of position in society der be compassion
• people worth more than the money they earn
• rich have power to change lives of the poor
• criticising the ignorance of wealthy classes
• wants a more compassionate society

Question 5

Theme of redemption on Christmas carol

Answer 5

Paragraph 1
-“ I can’t afford to make idle people merry”
Contrats with….
-“ do you know they’ve sold the prize turkey”

Paragraph 2
-“every idiot who goes about with ‘ merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through is heart”
Contrats with…
-“ merry Christmas everybody”

Paragraph 3
- “ the clerks fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal”

Contrats with…
-“ I’ll raise your salary”

Question 6

Setting in Christmas carol

Answer 6

• London has a significant divide between rich ans poor
• workhouses we’re the i my option for many families here at least they would be fed + housed however hours were long, the jobs dangerous + family’s often split up
• religious society worries about ‘ afterlife’ and ‘death’
• a theorist called Malthus argued that anyone who could not support himself did not have the right to live + that issue in society was a ‘ surplus population’

Question 7

Scrooge quotes

Answer 7

• “hard and sharp as flint”
• “ solitary as an oyster”
• “ he carried his own temperature around with him”
• “ bah humbug”
• “ it’s not my business”
• “ are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
• “ if they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
• “ no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him”

Question 8

Priestleys message

Answer 8

• empower the young gen to change
• challenge social injustice
• promote socialism
• criticise class system
• attitudes towards gender