Guilt and blame Flashcards
“Everyone of them wore chains like Marleys ghost”
These chains that have been “forged in life’ is a tool to highlight all the bad things they
all did in life has come back to haut them in purgatory. The guilt that has been
portrayed here is regret and how they all wish they can go back in time to change
what they did as it would have them eternal misery.
“They were not well dressed; their shoes far from being waterproof”
This is some of the first signs of Scrooge feeling guilt. He realises that their are many people without the basic necessities. Scrooge now sees how the result of the riches treatment has affected the poor.
“Uneasy in the mind” Adj
Scrooge feels uneasy as remembers how he treated Fred. This shows the reader scrooge has developed as a character due to ghosts as he now feels guilt from his actions. The reader will warm upto scrooge because he realises how he has now treated his family.
“Tell me if tiny Tim will live”
Scrooge shows guilt wishing death upon tiny Tim.
“Mankind was my business”
Marley shows blames himself for not supporting people while he can and he wants to show Scrooge that showing generous is the key to happiness, making Scrooge feel guilt about his wrong doings.
