Guilt and Blame Flashcards
‘the chain was long and wound about him like a tail’
‘the chain was made of cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses’
L - simile
The chain is weighing Jacob Marley down with guilt in his afterlife with all the things he was obsessed with in his life.
L - listing of nouns
These chains of items symbolises Marley’s moral burden that stems from his greed.
‘cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant’
‘oh, woe is me’
L - adverb
Spirits are doomed to walk the earth afterlife if they have not helped others in their lives.
They are miserable and feel guilty as they can now do nothing to help people who need help.
‘uneasy in his mind’
L - adjective
Scrooge feels guilty because he loved his sister, who has died, but he has not shown love to her son, his nephew Fred.
‘like to have given him something’
L - present perfect tense
Scrooge wishes he has treated the carol singing boy differently when he was at his door. He regrets the way he treated him.
‘Scrooge thought children might have been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim’
L - metaphor
L - adjective
Scrooge regrets missing out on the opportunity of being a father due to his obsession with money. He realises the love he has lost due to his miserliness.
‘if he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population’
‘overcome with penitence and grief’
L - nouns
Scrooge feels guilt hearing his own words said by the Ghost of the Presence when he knows that Tiny Tim will die in the future.
