keywords for christmas carol

Question 1

redemption

Answer 1

describes scrooge at the end of the novel (CHANGE FOR THE BETTER ) dickens wants to argue that anyone is capable of redemption even the really selfish readership who have have been fixated with making money as a consequence of industrial revolution

Question 2

penitent

Answer 2

scrooge at end of the novel because he feels sorry or remourseful for the things hes done

Question 3

miserly

Answer 3

at the beginning of the novel because e doesnt want to spend money he weven has a small fire although bob cratches are smaller can link with scrooge can be very greedy or even showing avarice which means a specific greed for money

Question 4

misanthropic

Answer 4

at the beginning of the novel he is misanthropic meaning he does not like people ‘solitary as an oyster’

Question 5

benevolent

Answer 5

by contrast is nephew fred is benevolent which means that he is kind a warm giving like his uncle is very cruel and hostile but then he is the quite opposite

Question 6

philanthropic

Answer 6

describing the charity collectors because they are very charitable and giving because they want to intervene linking that with dickens purpose and how he wants change

Question 7

social reform

Answer 7

another word for purpose this is what dickens wanted to achieve with the post revolutionary society for them to change (like the poor law)

Question 8

prophetic

Answer 8

a prediction of what will happen in the future you can use this would to describe innocent and want as at then end of stave 3 ignorance has doom on his forehead just basically representing the society through a child

Question 9

malthusian

Answer 9

links to theorist thomas malthus when scrooge is saying ‘ decrease the surplus population’ he is echoing thomas malthus

Question 10

gratitude

Answer 10

about the cratchits family eventhough they are so poor they are still grateful for what they have which is a different viewpoint for scrooge to look at