Scrooge Flashcards
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese…”
- Self-deluded
- In denial
“Old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait”
- Presented as a closed off old man
“He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew”
- Journey of redemption
- Anyone is capable of change
“knew how to keep Christmas well”
- Journey of redemption
- Contrasts to ‘bah humbug’ attitude towards Christmas at the start
“Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart”
- Violent imagery
- Comical but unpleasant
- Ill-mannered
“If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
- Represents upper class selfishness and harsh beliefs
- Thomas Malthus
“…as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part”
- Scrooge is in power
- Indirect speech
“no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him”
- Cold hearted
- Pathetic fallacy
“hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck a generous fire”
- Tough exterior
- Simile
- Potential to be good
“sole executor, sole administrator, sole assign, sole residuary legatee, sole friend, sole mourner”
“melancholy dinner … melancholy tavern”
- Repetition emphasises isolation
- Lonely/isolated
