English Literature Flashcards
What is the quote used at the beginning of stave 1?
“Marley was dead to begin with” - contradictory statement. Brings intrigue.
Is repeated to state to the reader life is short. So able to relate to characters
(Sentiment atmosphere)
What does Scrooge say in stave 1 to excuse his laziness?
“A world of fools”
How does Scrooge react to Jacob Marley in stave 1
“Disturbed the very marrow in his bones “
What quotes illustrates Scrooge’s own mortality and humanity’s failings in stave 2?
“I am mortal”
“Liable to fall”
What does Scrooge say in stave 1 about to the charitable men?
“He had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”
what does the ghost of christmas past say which makes scrooge regret his words.
“If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”
In stave 4, how does scrooge accept the presence of The ghost of future yet to come?
“I am prepared to bear your company, and do it with a thankful heart”
In stave 4, what does scrooge say after realising the name is on his grave?
” i will honour christmas in my heart” “i will live in the pas present and the future”
IN Stave 2, what quotes make Scrooge rethink about his employment?
“the happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune” (more money to employers?) “i “like to… say s word or two to my clerk”
What doe scrooge tell bob Cratchit at the end of Stave 5?
“ill raise your salary”
“endeavour to assist your struggles”
what does scrooge question to the charitable men about the poor. in stave 1
“are there no prisons?”
what does belle say to scrooge in stave 2?
“another idol has displaced me…a golden one”
what does dickens use scrooge to critisize?
the divide between those with money and those who do not.
how is scrooge described in stave 1?
“scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner” christian lannguagef
“hard and sharp as flint”
assonance of a, visual imagery
“as solitary as an oyster”
Where did dickens move to after his father accumulated lots of debts and why was it significant to Christmas carol?
Dickens moved to Camden high street in London. (Cratchits loved in cameden town.)
