Regret/Redemption/Remorse

Question 1

“Are there no prisons?”
“Decrease the surplus population”
“incessant torture of remorse”
Stave 1

Answer 1

decrease - verb, sounds like a statistic, dehumanising and making the poor into numbers, very businesslike. shows lack of care.
surplus - adjective, overspill, the unwanted population
THOMAS MALTHUS, he believed that the poor would take all the food and they would be an inconvenience
incessant - adjective,
torture of remorse -

Question 2

“why do you delight to torture me?”
“He could not hide the light that streamed under it”
Stave 2

Question 3

“was overcome with penitence and grief.”
“Scrooge hung his head”
“Have they no refuge or resource?”
Stave 3

Answer 3

overcome - verb, he is disturbed, shaken, affected by emotions of regret!
penitence - abstract noun, scrooge feels sorriw and regret, he understands he has donewrong, shows his change because he is comprehending the weight of his ignorant words
grief - abstract noun, intense sorrow, scrooge is in anguish/ is remorseful because of his own ignorance he is changing

Question 4

“Are these the shadows of things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?”
“I am not the man I was.”
“The spirits of all the will strive within me.”
Stave 4

Question 5

“Glowing with good intention”
“A second father to Tiny Tim”
Stave 5

Question 6

Purpose of R/R/R?

Answer 6

Scrooge has to be enlightened of his past actions to change and be put on this redemptive journey. he is trying to avoid the chains and the fate of Marley
it shows how scrooge changes and develops as a character from ignorant and unfeeling, to worrying about his past and being unable to be forgiven, to ashamed of recent cruel actions, to being shown the consequences of his actions in the future and being full of remorse, to changing and redeeming himself at the end
Dickens shows how even Scrooge made a change and he is an example kf how victorian aristocracy should also change