Quotes on A Christmas Carol Flashcards
A quote describe Scrooge at the beginning of the play, which makes him out to be a very horrible person.
‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!’
A quote describing how Scrooge is lonesome and ‘hidden away’.
‘Solitary as an oyster’
A quote describing Scrooge’s cold attitude towards everyone and how nothing and no-one can change that,
‘No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him’
A quote of Scrooge arguing with his Nephew, Fred, about the topic of Christmas and how he doesn’t believe in it. Scrooge also brings up the topic of wealth.
‘What reason do you have to be merry? You’re poor enough’
A quote where Scrooge is arguing with two portly gentlemen about the topic of poverty and the poor and Scrooge shows his dismissive and cold attitude towards the poor through his sarcasm and rhetorical questions. Scrooge is being facetious (treating serious issues with deliberate inappropriate humour).
‘Are there no prisons?’
A quote that Scrooge makes about the poor which shows that he seems them as ‘extra’ people which he thinks would rather be dead than alive. This also shows Scrooge’s impatient and selfish behaviour.
‘Decrease the surplus population’
A quote Scrooge says to the two portly gentlemen about their charity to help the people in poverty. This quote foreshadows when the ghost of Marley comes to visit Scrooge and says the quote ‘Mankind was my business’.
‘It’s not my business’
Scrooge says this at the ends of the novella when he has finally reformed into a better person than before.
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.”
The ghost of the Christmas Present tells this to Scrooge when he introduces the two children, ignorance and want. Ignorance and Want both symbolise the poor and how the poor are treated by the middle and upper class.
‘The boy is Ignorance. The girl is Want. Beware of them both’
A quote used to show how
‘Oh but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’
