future Flashcards
“Solemn dread”
-S is presented as cowardice and petrified of the ghost, he is filled with ‘solemn dread’. This supernatural dread is key in S’s emancipation as it allows S to fear the inevitable future he will face if he continues to be shrouded in his own internal darkness
“Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him”
-his utter terror is so powerful it doesn’t just evoke an emotional reaction from S but a physical one. The alliteration of silent shale draws emphasis on the mysterious es of the ghost, it’s faceless figure makes S lose all composure
-unalike to his previous masking of his fears of the ghosts, S appears honest about his dread as he says “I fear you more than any spectre I have seen”
-S’s due to his dropping of his miserable unphased facade highlights how he is unlearning how to repress hisemot
“Slowly, gravely, silently approached”
-triple ominous adverb shows this menacing ambience filled with dread
-this is exacerbated through the archetypal presentation of a menacing ghost that is faceless figure that there is to haunt S
“Shrouded in a deep black garment”
-reminiscent kf the description of the grim reaper, a symbol of death as he was believed to collect people’s souls. The alikeness in description is suggestive that S’s chnage of redemption have vanished and he is now going to be merciless taken to his hellish death
-the enigmatic ghost does not verbally communicate but physically uses his body as he had an …
-the use of hand repeatedly could be an allusion to the hand of time the ghost is warning S that he is losing time and is ironically closer to his ironically ‘solitary’ death- S longed for a solitary existence and now the ghost is solemnly showing him the repercussions of this selfish want
-at the fingers symbolises the hand of time and appears unmoved and inexorable it illuminates that finality and unstoppable nature of time it is a precious concept that cannot be reversed once it is gone it is gone eternally
- at the end of the stage the ‘the kind hand trembled’. As if no longer ‘unmoved’ this is suggestive that S’s plead for redemption has altered rhe unstobpple nature of time. He is now given an opurtinty to recital his wrongdoing and cherish Christmas Day again
-S seeds the irreversibility and permanence of war if time to live a life full of misery as his grave is overrun by grass and weeds” Scrooge’s sardonic life had led to him being neglected in his after life
