Isolation/ Greed Flashcards
Main ideas about isolation and greed:
1) The damaging affects greed can have on society.
2) Greed causes unhappiness and leads to isolation - his failed relationship with Belle.
3) Malthus’s idea
4) You choose whether or not to isolate yourself.
“Are there no _______/_______?”
workhouses/ prisons
“If they would rather die they had better die and..
decrease the surplus population”
‘A lonely boy reading near a…
feeble fire’
‘secret, self-contained and as…
solitary as an oyster’
“What’s a Christmastime to you but…
a time for paying bills without money?”
Significance of the window:
Different moments of the play shows how detached Scrooge is from society by the window being open or closed.
‘There stood a solitary _________’
lighthouse
‘unwatched, unwept…
uncared for, was the body of this man’
“I’m quite a ____”
baby
“I’m as light as a ______”
feather
