scrooge's fears

Question 1

what are dickens four purpouses when discussing scrooge’s fears

• use scrooge as a metaphorical tool to warn the rich of their actions, consequences and repercussions
• use god to show how religion does not favour those who are corrupt and rich and that they owe a great religious debt
• uses his own experiance to urge the rich to have a gretaer understanding

Answer 1

• use scrooge as a metaphorical tool to warn the rich of their actions, consequences and repercussions
• use god to show how religion does not favour those who are corrupt and rich and that they owe a great religious debt
• uses his own experiance to urge the rich to have a gretaer understanding
• uses scrooge as a metaphorical tool to show how there is still a way in which you can redeem yourself

Question 2

what are any contextual references you need

Answer 2

the bible: “he who gives to the poor will never want, but he who shuts his eyes will have many curses”

Question 3

wider context quotes

Answer 3

“are there no workouses, are there no prisons”
“even the blind mens dogs would tug their owners into doorways”
“in his counting house”

Question 4

what do you write about in paragraph 1

Answer 4

• contrast scrooges character in stave 1 and four to show a strong man turn into a trembling man
• in stave 1 he’s so tight that he’s a sinner, against the very fabric of victorian society bible quote
• in stave four he “bent down on his knee” which has religious connotations of beggin for forgivness, out of weakness and fear
• overall dickens puts the two most influental things in victorian society up against each other, rich men vs god and god always wins, a warning to rch men

Question 5

what do you write about in paragraph 2

Answer 5

• dickens manipulates scrooges fears to present the extent of personal change and show redmption is possible
• was once the feared “even the blind mens dogs” who are the lowest of the low fear him, even though they have nothing to lost such is the extent of peoples fears of scrooge
• roles then revresed here where scrooge is asking so many questions like a child yet not recieving a reply. his reputation has fell to that of a whimpering child
• uses scrooges fear to show how its not worth stressing over something that can crumble so quickly

Question 6

what do you write about in paragraph 3

Answer 6

• uses the idea of control to relate and sympathise with the reader
• earlier in the extract scroogw is in control in his counting house where he is in control which is a metaphor for how the rich are in control of everything in society
• now theres a lexical field where everything is specualtivw which is a fear of scrooges
• shows himself s pathetic and unable to cope with something in which the poor have struggled with for the whole of their life. shows how the rich are weak yet the poor are strongly bonded to form a rigid unbreakable unit