Stave 1 Key Quotes Flashcards
3 Scrooge key quotes
Hint =
1) fist
2) everyone uses similie 1
3) everyone uses simile 2
- ‘Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!’
- ‘Solitary as an oyster’
- ‘Hard and sharp as flint’
Analyse ‘Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone Scrooge!’
Tight-fisted (adjective) suggests he’s stingy and miserly
Analyse ‘solitary as an oyster’
- similie
- ‘solitary’ suggests he’s on his own
- ‘oyster’ inside them are pearl - purity, innocence - symbolises his heart is hidden away deep down
- ‘oyster’ when they’re kept on the seabed for a while their shell becomes thicker - symbolises that Scrooge gets more closed off the older he gets
Analyse ‘Hard and sharp as flint’
- ‘sharp’ causes pain eg - underpays Bob = physical & emotional pain - physical = his family cant get the food they need leading them to starve - emotional = cant help tiny Tim and its causing him to feel the burden of tiny Tim being injured
- ‘flint’ lights a fire or used as a weapon - symbolises aggressiveness BUT the fire can symbolises generosity, emotional warmth so Scrooge has the potential to be generous
Bob Cratchit/Scrooge quote
Hint =
Fire
‘The clerks fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
Analyse ‘The clerks fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’
- ‘smaller’ = a comparative adjective, lacks generosity and emotional warmth
- ‘one coal’ could cause Bob to become ill
- ‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’ manipulative/torture
What does Scrooge say to Fred
Hint = going off about christmas
‘Let me keep christmas in my own way, and you keep it in yours’
Analyse ‘Let me keep christmas in my own way, and you keep it in yours’
- ‘My own’ shows scrooges greed to keep things for himself but also that he wants to stay being alone and isolated
- ‘Keep’ suggests that his and Fred’s lives are completely different, as if they dont live in the same world eg - Scrooge lives in an isolated world portraying the 7 deadly sins and Fred lives in a happy world portraying the 7 heavenly virtues
What does Scrooge say on poverty
Hint =
1) places where poor people went
2) dying and population
- ‘are there no prisons? No workhouses?’
- ‘if they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’
Analyse ‘are there no prisons? No workhouses?’
- suggesting the places poor people could go shows that Scrooge lacks any empathy for people and would rather send them away to places they can help themselves at because its the easier option for him - doesnt have to give his money away then
Analyse ‘if they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’
- dickens does a direct attack to Malthus with this - Malthus said this about the poor people
- ‘surplus’ the overflowing population - the poor people are extra people who arent fit to work (disabled people?) and do not need to live because of this - represented by tiny Tim
What does Scrooge say to bob
Hint =
What should he do after Christmas
‘Be here all the earlier next morning’
Analyse ‘Be here all the earlier next morning’
- a crompomise for bob taking the day off - lacks generosity for bob to let him spend time with his family also shows scrooges greed to keep making money and cant bear to take a break because he’s so greedy
What does Scrooge do to the carol singer
Hint =
Carol singer gets scared and runs away
‘Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action that the carol singer fled in terror’
Analyse ‘Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action that the carol singer fled in terror
‘Seized’ - verb - aggressively takes = forceful, violent to a child - shows he’s uncaring to others no matter what age
Scrooges meal quote
Hint =
Melancholy
‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’
Analyse ‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’
- ‘melancholy’ he’s sad and alone the complete opposite of Fred and bob
Marleys here!!!
Hint =
1) his chain features
2) his chain and life
3) his warning
4) scored Scrooge
- ‘the chain…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel’
- ‘i wear the chain i forged in life, i made it link by link’
- ‘I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope’
- ‘Scrooge trembled’
Analyse ‘the chain…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel’
- ‘chain’ like a criminal + they’re heavy - represents how his sins never stop - punished by things he used to value
- ‘cash-boxes’/‘keys’/‘padlocks’/‘ledgers’/‘deeds’ = symbols of money, relating to his life - burdening him
- ‘heavy purses’ are a burden to him
Analyse ‘i wear the chain i forged in life, i made it link by link’
- He wears judgement
- metaphor for how he can’t move on
- moral lesson
- ‘forged’ = to bring together - his money
- ‘chain’ = sins for when he lived - cant move on to repent - woeful state
Analyse ‘I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope’
‘Warn you’ = he’s a warning, a profit for Scrooge
Analyse ‘Scrooge trembled’
- ‘trembled’ = to violently shake, feeling fear
