stave 1 - quotes

Question 1

scrooge description 1
- lack of warmth/empathy
- suggests pain
- simile

Answer 1

hard and sharp as a flint

Question 2

scrooge description 2
- “no human make him warm”
- a rock used in the 19th century with steel to make fires.
- fires create a semantic field of warmth and light,
- emphasises Scrooge’s as unfeeling and coldhearted.

Answer 2

no steel had ever struck out generous fire

Question 3

scrooge talking to fred

Answer 3

what reason do you have to be merry your poor enough

Question 4

marley talking about consequences
- lesson to people
- regret
- missuesed oppertunity

Answer 4

not to know that no space of regret can make amends for ones opertunities missuesed

Question 5

Fred talking about social class
- embodies Christmas spirit
- rich dehumanising poor

Answer 5

as if they were really fellow passangers to the grave, and not another race of creature

Question 6

scrooge not giving money to charity
- unsympathetic
- thinks - lazy and their fault

Answer 6

i cant afford to make idle people merry

Question 7

the torture Marley is going through
- power of 3
- warning scrooge

Answer 7

no rest no peace. incessant torture of remorse

Question 8

Marley’s business
- responsibility
- metaphor
- needs to think of others

Answer 8

mankind was my business. the common welfare was my business.