Scrooge Flashcards
Who does Scrooge represent?
The rich
What does Dickens use Scrooge to encourage?
Moral change
“Squeezing, wrenching…”
“Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”
“Tight-…”
“Tight-fisted”
“The cold within him…”
“The cold within him froze his old features”
“No wind that blew…”
“No wind that blew was bitterer than he”
How is pathetic fallacy used to show the change in Scrooge?
At the start, we are constantly told about the cold and dark “foggier yet, and colder. Piercing, searching, biting cold”. Whereas, in the final Stave we are told the weather is “clear, bright, jovial” with “golden sunlight”.
“Golden…”
“Golden sunlight”
“Foggier yet, and colder…”
“Foggier yet, and colder. Piercing, searching, biting cold”
“Secret, and self-contained, and…”
“Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster”
“Hard and…”
“Hard and sharp as flint”
“Scrooge was his sole executor…”
“Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and his sole mourner”
“Bah…”
“Bah! Humbug”
What does “humbug” mean?
Something to deceive and mislead.
What does the use of “humbug” suggest?
Scrooge is being deceptive and insincere, or Fred is.
“If they would rather die…”
“If they would rather die…they better do it and decrease the surplus population”
“Jacob tell me more…”
“Jacob tell me more! Speak comfort to me, Jacob”
“Marley’s ghost bothered…”
“Marley’s Ghost bothered him exceedingly”
“Your lip is…”
“Your lip is trembling said the Ghost”
“A solitary child…”
“A solitary child, neglected by his friends”
“I cannot…”
“I cannot bear it”
“I learned a lesson…”
“I learned a lesson which is working now”
“Tonight if you have aught to teach me…”
“Tonight if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it”
“Begged like a…”
“Begged like a boy to stay”
“Tell me if Tiny Tim…”
“Tell me if Tiny Tim will live”
“Scrooge was overcome with…”
“Scrooge was overcome with penitence and grief”
“It is likely to be a cheap funeral…”
“It is likely to be a cheap funeral…I don’t know of anybody to go to it”
“Scrooge listened to the dialogue…”
“Scrooge listened to the dialogue in horror”
“I will honour Christmas in my heart…”
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year”
“I am as light as a…”
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy~”
“He became a good…”
“He became a good friend, a good master”
