Family/Community Flashcards
Why were large families idealised?
Queen Victoria had 9 children
Main ideas about family:
1) The impact of an absent family. - Scrooge became miserable due to being neglected as a child but he chose to be melancholy rather than improve his circumstances.
2) The impact of a present/ respectable family. - The Cratchits show that a family provides you with strength and happiness so that you can tackle anything.
3) Family aren’t always the people closest to you biologically but rather the people you care for most. - Scrooge becomes a second father to Tiny Tim.
“Mankind was my _________.”
business
The significance of the window:
Scrooge shuts himself away from society during the beginning of the novella but as it progresses he is reborn and rejoins society.
‘A lonely boy was…
reading near a feeble fire’
“Father is so much…
kinder than he used to be, that home’s like heaven”
Fanny analysis:
Scrooge’s only present family member was Fanny who he adored but when she died he lost faith in humanity.
‘he was all in a _____’
glow
“Another idol has _________ me”
displaced
Motif of fire:
In the beginning, Scrooge is isolated so the fire is weak but at the end of the novel the fire is strong since family/ community have come together.
‘There stood a solitary _________’
lighthouse
‘Pinched and twisted them, and…
pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned devils lurked’
‘Yellow, meagre…
ragged, scowling wolfish but prostate.’
‘un______, un______, un_____ for, was the body of this man’
unwatched, unwept, uncared
“I’m quite a _____”
baby
