Stave 2 Flashcards
setting at the start
Scrooge’s bedroom
the situation of the stave
Scrooge wakes up in bed
the clock strikes twelve even though he went to sleep at 2
the clock strikes one and he is visited by the ghost of Christmas past
what does the Ghost of Christmas past show him?
childhood, adolescence, adulthood
what was Scrooge’s childhood a representation of
neglect
perhaps explains his current misanthropic nature
traumatic evolution
most influential years are childhood
what happened to Scrooge in his adolescence
worked for the Fezziwig’s
construction of having wealth and happiness
perhaps makes us question why Scrooge didn’t follow this behaviour
what happened to Scrooge in his early adulthood
consumed by avarice
miserly
drives away his fiancee Belle with his greed
what happens for the first time in this stave
Scrooge potentially breaks as a character
Begins to express emotion
quote to show Scrooge’s first sign of emotion
sobbed shows intense uncontrollable feelings, perhaps a build-up?
”’ A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.’ Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.”
Scrooge
displays feelings of guilt/regret
Thinking of others and not just of himself
“I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now”
Belle
Idol relates to religion/ a spiritual guidance
sometime to drive motivation/look up to
“another idol has displaced me”
Ghost of Christmas Past
Another sign of emotion
Shock to the ghost
Shock to the reader perhaps
” ‘Your lip is trembling,’ said the ghost ‘and what is that upon your cheek?’ “
what other character is Scrooge shown an encounter with
Fan, his sister
Ghost
about his sister and the love she displays
shows the opposition between the family, perhaps that she had been brought up with love.
The fragility of Victorian British children is displayed, through the “delicate”, shows malnutrition
“Always a delicate creature…but she had a large heart”
Scrooge still fixated with money
Happiness is priceless
first recognition of happiness as an emotion
“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune”
Belle
Scrooge is faced with his sin of avarice
“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.”
