Marley's Ghost Quotes Flashcards
What does Marley’s Ghost represent?
Marley’s ghost represents the punishment and fear of punishment to come if scrooge doesn’t change.
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?”
What does this show?
“I made it link by link” and “i wore the chain i forged in life”
means that his life choices has caused him to become where he is now, that his choices similar to scrooge’s choices has lead to his everlasting punishment.
“The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. It was long and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel”
What does this represent?
This chain represents his punishment
The items the chain was made of shows what items Marley only cares about in life
“long and wound” also emphasises Marley’s sin and punishment.
Foreshadows Scrooge could possibly suffer the same fate as Marley
“How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.”
What does this show?
Marley always watching him slowly go through the same fate as Marley is possibly another punishment.
“I am here to-night to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.”
What does this show?
Marley try’s to warn Scrooge and telling him to change and this is also presents the Ghosts as “agents of change”.
“At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismissal and appalling noise”
What does this show?
This emphasise Marley’s punishment and this could be what Scrooge will have to go through.
“The weight and the length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full as heavy as long as this seven Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured on it since. it is a ponderous chain!”
What is Marley talking about?
Ponderous - Of very great weight
Marley is talking about the invisible chain that represents Scrooge’s sins as of currently and how dire his punishment will be if Scrooge does not change his ways “ponderous” emphasises the weight of his sins and the punishment yet to come.
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business, charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business”
What does this show?
Marley regrets the wrong priorities he held in life.
Scrooge has just said that Marley was always a good man of business.
Marley, distressed, knows that his true business should have been helping people.
We can infer the message here is that making money shouldn’t be the focus it should be helping people.
“if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world”
What is Marley talking about here?
Marley explains how justice functions in the afterlife to punish sins of omission.
Shows that human kind should be kind to each other and if not it will result in punishment.
Which group of elements had not been discovered when Mendeleev’s version of the
periodic table was published?
Noble gases
