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.
