Scrooge Flashcards
Stave 2 selfishness?
“A solitary child meglected by his friends” paralell “solitary as an oyster”
- Parallel language allows reader to understand how Selfish Scrooge is and how “solitary” he was in his adulthood is synonymous with his defenceless “solitary” existence as a child
Stave 2 selfish? Gd
“A golden idol has displaced” belle
- “golden” connotes valuable and precious this is ironic as it indicates how Scrooge was a microcosm of the upper class and valued money over family
Stave 1 poverty/injustice?
“Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses?
His malthusian views paired with rhetorical question highlight ignorance of upper class towards poverty. Scrooge is unable to see poverty with humanity there contributing to “surplus population”
Stave 2 poverty?
“Still very foggy and extremely cold”
“Fog” represents insitutionalised oppression. Dickens uses this to subtly indict how there is social injustice in crevice London.
Stave 3 poverty?
They are “yellow” “scowling” and “wolfish”
“Yellow could imply children are sick and malnourished because of the neglection of society and obliviousness of individuals to social injustice. Animilistic highlights dehuminisation and reducing of them as a human
Supernatural stave 1?
“Peircing searching, biting cold”
- personification of weather makes weather more powerful. And allusion to forthcoming supernatural powers
Scrooge kind act 2?
“His heart and soul were in the scene and with his former self”
- Scrooge has a warm welcoming ambience. Fezziweg was a family memeber and he had a benevalont reaction. This is juxtaposition to “cold had little influence”
Stave 5 kindness?
“Ill send it to Bob Cratchit’s”
Scrooge becomes altruistic and benevolent his acts towards Cratchits show this. And takes a paternal Role to Tiny Tim.
Scrooge redemption Stave 3?
“Scrooge entered timidly,and hung his head before this spirit”
- Appears submissive to the ghost and welcoming the idea of his moral and spiritual awakening. For the first time shows remorse and obedience
Stave 4 redemption?
“Hear me! I am not the man I was”
Imperative phrase “hear me” shows Scrooge’s despiration to be allowed a chance at redemption and salvation. The exclamative sentence compounds despiration as he is pleading to the ghost.
