Quotes for stave 1 Flashcards
“Hard and sharp as flint”
Scrooge is secretive and self contained
Simile
“Oh! He was tight fisted hand at the grindstone”
Metaphor
The explanation mark after the oh suggests that even the narrator is overwhelmed by how unpleasant Scrooge is
He is also very tight with money
Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner
Verb
Scrooge like to collect money and doesn’t spend it to help him self or others
“No steel had ever struck out generous fire “
Scrooge isn’t generous with his money
“Secret and self contained , solitary as an oyster “
Smilie
Scrooge bottles his emotions up and doesn’t let anyone in
“The cold within him froze his old features”
The cold effects Scrooge physically
“External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge”
Pathetic fallacy
The weather sets the atmosphere
Scrooge is cold inside and out
“No wind blew was bitter than he”
Metaphor
Scrooge is a horrible, sour old man
(Miser)
But he couldn’t replenish it for Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room
Scrooge is tight with money and won’t won’t let anyone have warmth
His face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again
-Scrooge’s nephew
Fred juxtaposes Scrooge’s character and is also a very warm heartfelt character
What right have you to be merry? What reason you have to be merry? Your poor enough
Scrooge values money and has very capitalist views
A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time
-Christmas
Adjectives on what Christmas is about completely juxtaposes Scrooge views towards Christmas
“Why did you get married.” Said Scrooge
“Because I fell in love.”
“Because you fell in love!” Growled Scrooge
-to Fred
Scrooge is a loveless character and think marriage is pointless unless it’s for money
“I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”
- from Fred to Scrooge
Fred cares about people and have a big heart like fan
Fan=Scrooge’s sister she died in child birth to Fred
Every idiot who goes around with merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart
Scrooge thinks Christmas is a stupid time of the year and people who celebrate it are even stupider
Keep Christmas in your own way, and I’ll keep it in mine
He has he’s own rights and point of view
Are there no prisons
Are there no workhouses
The treadmill and poor law are in full vigour then
Scrooge doesn’t like charity and supports Thomas Malthus point of views towards the poor (the poor law)
Context=
Treadmill = a big hamster wheel but with people at the mill
I wish to be left alone
Scrooge isolates himself from society
“If they would rather die “ said Scrooge “they better do it and decrease the surplus population “
Thomas Malthus views = the poor law
Just say the poor should die
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern p
Melancholy= adjective
Just learn it
Scrooge eats by himself
Dragging a heavy chain
= Marley’s ghost
Links in chains = bad things you have done (Victorian England)
If that spirit not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the worlds
Marley is in the purgatory he has to have attorney towards his sins
I wear the chains I forged in life
LEARN
Sins= links in chain (building your own fate)
You have laboured in it, since. It is a ponderous chain
Marley to Scrooge
Scrooge has made it heavier as he has got more horrible
Ponderous= adjective heaven and slow
“The whole time,” said the ghost, “no rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse”
Marley is shamed of what he did and who he acted
