Stave 1 Flashcards
‘Hard and sharp as flint…
from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire”
‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping…
scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner’
‘secret, self contained…
and solitary as an oyster’
‘A frosty rime was on his head…
He carried his own low temperature always about with him’
‘No eye at all…
is better than an evil eye, dark master’
‘To edge his way along the crowded…
paths of life, warning all sympathy to keep its distance’
‘His eye upon his clerk…
who in a dismal cell beyond… (had a) fire (which) was so very much smaller’
‘He was all in a glow; his…
face was ruddy and handsome;his eyes sparkled’
“What’s a Christmastime…
to you but a time for paying bills without money?”
“Are there no _______/______?”
workhouses/ prisons
“If they would rather die…
they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
‘the ancient tower of a church became _________’
invisible
‘winking their eyes…
before the blaze in rapture’
‘_______ dinner in his usual ________ tavern’
melancholy
“I wear the chain I forged in life…
I made it link by link and yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?”
“Mankind was my business…
The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were all but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business.”
“Hum___!”
bug
Main ideas expressed in Stave 1:
1) Christmas is a pleasant, charitable and forgiving time of year
2) Being a good christian was a key aspect of Victorian individuals.
3) Communities should come together but the middle-upper class is the cause of the disarray in London.
4) Parsimonious and misanthropic behaviour are commonly found in the upper class.
5) A large divide in classes and the rich treated the poor disrespectfully.
