Scrooge Key Quotes Flashcards
Analyse quote - As solitary as an oyster
Hard tightly closed shell, he doesn’t let anyone in, abhors human contact
Pearls inside though indicate there could be some hope inside the shell
Simile
Shows his misanthropic ( unsociable) nature
Lives alone at bottom of sea bed
Analyse quote - ‘Hard and sharp as flint’
-sharp creates weaponry imagery and presents Scrooge as dangerous as if society is scared of him
-flints indicate fire foreshadowing his redemption and ability to change
- could represent his witty and insulting behaviour towards others
-hard could suggest he’s stubborn, easily stuck, rigid, incapable of change
Analyse quote ‘ the cold within him froze his old features’
-creates imagery of a statue something emotionless and unfeeling, stuck in his own hard shell, closed off from society
-harsh features
‘No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him’
Unaffected by external forces and symbolises him being closed off to Victorian society as he is closed off to the weather
Repetition of ‘W’ emphasises harshness of the phrase and also mimics the wind whipping around Scrooge but having no effect, eerie for reader
‘A solitary child neglected by his friends left there still’
Repetition of solitary (solitary as an oyster)
But different context, isolation is self inflicted by others
‘Child’ creates feelings of innocence and corruption creates sympathy, gives reason to reader of why Scrooge is like how he is
‘Left there still ‘ suggests that the child he was remains within him and he still holds his childhood baggage
‘Tell me Tiny Tim will live’
Major contrast from stave 1
Beginning to feel sympathy now he has seen cratchitt family
Redemption is strong
‘He softened more and more’
Contrasts with quote ‘hard and sharp as flint’
Softened suggests his previous icy image is slowly melting away and allowing him to become more cheerful and merry, connotations of kindness and calm
Hard closed shell is beginning to break
‘I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy ‘
He is now gentle and soft replacing his cold hard scary persona.
‘I am as happy as an angel’ makes him likeable to Victorian audience as he is now compared to an angel instead of previous ‘old sinner’ allures to Christianity making him now appealing instead of unlikable as that was dominant faith at the time
