Quotes Flashcards
‘wonderful pudding’
also links with…
grateful, easily excited.
‘small pudding’ ‘large family’
context - the gap between…
rich and poor in Victorian society.
tiny tim - ‘god bless…
us everyone’
cratchits remain in high spirits regardless of circumstances. deserving poor.
‘decrease…
the surplus population’
objectifying, seen as a resource, not people.
‘are there no….
prisons?’
rhetorical question.
‘kindred…
spirits’
‘hard and…
sharp as flint’
‘i wear the chains…
i forged in life’
SCROOGES
PAST
‘i will honour…
Christmas in my heart’
‘i am as light as a feather…
, i am as happy as an angel’
‘it held a branch of…
‘dress trimmed…
what do they show
green holly in its hand’
with summer flowers’
- symbol of hope and how things could become better.
‘like a child;…
yet not so like as an old man’
- shows old men and children could change and grow .
‘ignorance’ …
‘beware this boy for on his brow…
‘want’
is written that which is doom’
-warning to help the needy. personification.
future cannot speak…
shows can change future and by not giving definite answers the future appears changeable.
Christmas present repeats ‘decrease the surplus population’ describing the possible death of tiny tim because…
forcing him to confront his opinions that he held against the poor.
shows that scrooge does have some hidden compassion that is now released. Scrooge sees himself as everyone else sees him, shows his fear of being confronted, neglected as a child.
