scrooge transformation Flashcards
Scrooge changed into a greedy and selfish individual over time.
“wear the signs of care and avarice”
This metaphor symbolises the dangerous and destructive effects that greed can have on a person. focus on money is changing him physically, because it has not good for his health.
extended metaphor of a tree when he refers to “the passion that had taken root “where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.” This perhaps foreshadows Scrooge’s ultimate descent into an isolated, miserable lifestyle dominated by work and perhaps implies that greed will eventually lead to pain and destruction for anybody who is connected
In the Victorian era, there was vast inequality and the 1834 Law forced the poor into workhouses. As a result, greedy usurers such as Scrooge could exploit them for profit by loaning them money.
Dickens shows how Scrooge gradually begins to show emotions such as
compassion and affection
When he is shown the Cratchit family in Stave Three he asks the Ghost of Christmas Present to “Tell me if Tiny Tim will live!” imperative command.
Scrooge’s transformation as it indicates that he has started to feel care towards the lower classes. demanding to know wellbeings of others through exclamative.
contrast decrease surplus population. adjective “surplus” implies he does not see any value in people who do not earn a lot of money and sees them simply as a nuisance to
society. Scrooge’s views here mirror those of Reverend Thomas Malthus.
Scrooge becomes less stubborn and more willing to learn as the novella progresses.
“squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping,
clutching covetous old sinner.” This asyndetic list of verbs portrays the actions of Victorian usurers like Scrooge as being harmful and aggressive.
present participles implies that Scrooge’s
behaviour is ongoing and uncontrolled.
by Stave Four, Scrooge seems to recognise
that he needs to change his behaviour. When he meets the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come he is terrified yet agrees to follow it with a “thankful heart”.
much braver man as he is no longer thinking just about his own fear but about the more
important moral lessons he needs to learn.
Dickens shows that Scrooge becomes a much happier person when he rediscovers a sense of responsibility, kindness and community
In Stave Five, Scrooge wakes up and states how he feels “light as a feather!”.
He is no longer the miserable, anti-social man he was at the start of the story. feels a sense of freedom which contrasts greatly to his partner Marley who was forced to wander the earth wrapped in chains after death.
Furthermore, Dickens describes how Scrooge became “as good a friend, as a good a master and as good a man” to the city he lives in. exemplifies the different roles Scrooge takes in his community at the end of the novella.
Overall, Dickens seems to be suggesting here that greed and profit are not the way to true happiness as a way of attacking the materialistic attitudes of the Victorian era.
brought back to religious morals
sinner
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rebirth slaient brought back to god.
