Quotes

Question 1

‘Bah humbug!’- scrooge

Answer 1

Shows how he likes disliking christmas

Question 2

Old marly was as dead as a door nail

Answer 2

He was completely dead and useless.

His death is being weighted on by scrooge

Question 3

‘God bless us everyone!’- tiny Tim

Answer 3

He is very happy despite his problems

Question 4

‘Solitary as an oyster’

Answer 4

This is used to describe scrooges negative nature

There is something better inside

Question 5

‘He carried his own low temperature around with him’

Answer 5

He is a lot more cruel and horrible than the effects of the weather

Question 6

‘If they’d rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’

Answer 6

Cold heart
Rather see people die than help them
He sees the poorer as a different kind to him.

Question 7

‘I wear the chain i forged in life ‘- Marley

Answer 7

Suggests that in the after life, he is paying for his wrong doings.
Warning scrooge

Question 8

‘I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel,

I am as merry as a school boy, I am as giddy as a drunken man’- scrooge

Answer 8

He has let loose of his horrible ways

Opened up and found the pearl inside him

Question 9

What does Mr Fezziwig symbolise

Answer 9

He emphasises the contrast between scrooges negative way between people and money and how he is always very jolly and uses his money in a nice way.

Question 10

‘Hard and sharp as flint’

Answer 10

Suggests he is very hard and cold

Question 11

‘No more!’ ‘No more, I don’t wish to see it. Show me no more!’

Scrooge to ghost of Christmas past

Answer 11

For the first time he shows his feelings

Finding it hard to find things out about himself

Question 12

‘Let me profit by it’ scrooge to the ghost of christmas present

Answer 12

He is more obedient this time and shows scrooge is developing as a person and wants to profit from this. Not money, but be a better person.

Question 13

Significance of tiny Tim

Answer 13

He acts as a visual representation of the consequences of scrooges actions and what may happen if he doesn’t change his ways.

Question 14

Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit.

(Decrease the surplus population as Tim has now died)

Answer 14

He realises the wrong he has done.
Deeply ashamed of his words
Realises how insensitive he was
Feels guilt…

Question 15

‘I will honour Christmas in my heart’

Answer 15

Scrooge has learnt the importance of being kind and generous, especially to people in need (the surplus population)
Heart links to love

Question 16

Scrooge at the end of the novela

Answer 16

He is the opposite of before.

Had finally opened up his hard exterior

Question 17

‘Scrooge was better than his word’

Answer 17

Scrooge said he would become better, however he is a lot better than he said

Question 18

‘The cold within he froze his old features’

Answer 18

He is so cold inside it is shown on the outside.

Question 19

Weather descriptions at the beginning

‘Foggy, dark, cold biting…’

Answer 19

Negative adjectives which enforce pathetic fallacy as the mood and nature of scrooge is depicted in the atmosphere

Question 20

‘He rubbed his hands; adjusted his
capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself, from his shoes to his
organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat,
jovial voice’

Answer 20

The quote shows how important mr fezziwig is, in relation to Scrooge. The quote consists of a list that expresses his attributes

Question 21

The fog symbolism

Answer 21

Can be used as a symbol for ignorance as scrooge although he knows what he is doing is wrong, continues to disregard people in need and

Question 22

Music symbolism

Answer 22

Symbolises the joy of christmas and what Scrooge has missed out on. He has made his life into the opposite

Question 23

Tiny Tim symbolism

Answer 23

Representation of all the poor and vulnerable people

Question 24

Symbolism of candles

Answer 24

The candle represents scrooge as he has money and fortune does work with some, like the higher class, however a candle in a dark room will not light up the entirety of the room, and the area left in darkness is the surplus population (poorer people), expressing scrooges greed and the idea that he can be put out at any moment