Relationships Flashcards
How do scrooge and Fred differentiate (list 5 things)
Speech, appearance, attitude to Christmas, attitude to love, treatment of others.
Differences in Fred and scrooges speech to each other
“Cheerful voice”. “Sternly”
Differences in appearance between Fred and Scrooge
“In a glow, his face ruddy and handsome, eyes sparkled”
“Old features nipped his pointed nose”
Differences in attitude towards Christmas
“I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So a merry Christmas uncle!’
“Bah! Humbug !”
F and s differences in attitude to love
“Because i fell in love”
“Why did you get married”
F and S treatment of others
He stopped to wish a merry Christmas to bob
“Let me here another sound from you”
What is Scrooges relationship with his father like?
Very distant and strained, his sister, fanny, has to convince his father to let him home for Christmas.
When do we feel sympathy for Scrooge when being shown his past?
When we see him sat alone at Christmas, and we see the way his father and his relationship is.
What quote makes us feel sympathy for Scrooge?
“ a solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still”
What quote makes us feel sympathy for Scrooge?
How is bob presented
An ideal family man , his change in character after Tim’s predicted death demonstrates his affection and the impact of rhe loss of a loved one
The cratchits are
A untied family (they work together for the christmas meal )
Dickens underscores the importance of
Family and its centrality to people’s lives
Scrooge and belles relationship was destroyed by
Scrooges fixation on money
Scrooge and belles broken down relationship show what
Scrooge could have had and highlights the corrosive consequences of greed
Obsession with …… can destroy relationships
Material possessions
Scrooge displays aloofness and hostility to….
Fred, he’s a foil to Scrooges character , his optimism makes Scrooges pessimism worse
Scrooges relationship with society
Solitary no positive relationship , he is ostracised and isolated which allows him to remain ignorant to social problems around him
