Quotes Flashcards
Like a child: yet not so like a child
Ghost of christmas past
he represents everyone
juxtaposition
The ghost flickers like a candle
Christmas past
rise! and walk with me!
Christmas past
assertive and to be obeyed
like an old man, like a child
christmas past
represents scrooge at all ages
represents everyone in society
spring flower
christmas past
scrooge can change
jolly giant
christmas present
contrasts with scrooge
it’s sparkling eye
christmas present
similar to fred
ghost uses scrooges words against him referring to tim as ‘surplus population’
christmas present
he holds a mirror up to scrooge
the boy is ignorance, the girl is want. beware of the boy
christmas present
highlights what society should not be
children are young and innnocent, many children were homeless in london
scrooges legs ‘trembled’
christmas yet to come
personification of death
christmas yet to come
scrooges actions have left him ‘as solitary as an oyster’
christmas yet to come
nobody comes to mourn him ; they only come for the free food
It shows that if Scrooge doesn’t change The only way he would help people is if he were dead
