Stave 1 Flashcards
Repetition of the simile to emphasise that marley is dead
‘Marley is as dead as a doornail’
Biblical language to show scrooge as a bad person - sibilance
‘Tight fisted hand at the grindstone! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner’
Quote to show scrooge is not a nice person
‘Hard and sharp as a flint’
‘Flint’ hints at change as it can be lit
Quote to allude to scrooge possibly being able to change yet due to a capitalist society is confined
‘Solitary as an oyster’
Quote to show that scrooge caused his own harsh character and tha is why he is alone
‘He carried his own low temperature with him’
‘No warmth could warm him, nor wintry weather chill him’
Quote showing scrooge is isolated - contrasts to stave 5
‘Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say ‘my dear scrooge how are you?’
Quote showing scrooge rejects humans and love
‘Warning all human sympathy to keep its distance’
Quote from fred to contrast to scrooges mood
‘A merry christmas unclue. God bless you’
Quote to show scrooges thoughts on christmas - he only thinks of money
‘Finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer’
Quotes to show that scrooge dismisses the poor
‘Are there no prisons?’
‘I can’t afford to make idle people merry’ - sees poor as disposable
Link to supernatural as scrooge sees marleys ghost
To say that he was not startled, or that his blood was no conscious of a terrible sensation would be untrue
Quote showing marley is doomed to carry weight of his selfishness and greed - showing scrooge he needs to change
‘I wear the chains i forged in life’
Biblical imagery describing purgatory - suffering
‘Incessant torture of remorce’
Biblical language to show there are lots of people like scrooge
‘The air was filled with phantoms’
Fred is optimistic and has family
‘Don’t be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us’
