stave one Flashcards

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what happens in stave one

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  • starts on christmas eve
  • ebenezar ( scrooge ) is a cold-hearted miser who hates christmas
  • he’s mean to nephew fred and clerk bob cratchit
  • refuses to make a donation to charity
  • at night,ghost of old business partner ( jacob marley ) visits him in chains
  • marley warns him to change or he’ll suffer the same fate
  • marley mentions how he will be visited by 3 spirits
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who do we meet and how do they come across?

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  • ebenezar ( scrooge ) = greedy,lonely,money obsessed
  • scrooge’s nephew ( fred ) = opposite of scrooge, cheerful
  • scrooge’s assistant ( bob cratchit ) = timid,nervous
  • marley’s ghost = aggressive
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analyse quotes about scrooge :
- ‘ hard and sharp as flint ‘
- ‘ solitary as an oyster ‘
- ‘ covetous,old sinner ‘
- ‘ darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it ‘
- ‘ the cold within him froze his features ‘

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  • ’ hard and sharp as flint ‘ = not forgiving, unapproachable
  • ’ solitary as an oyster ‘ = simile - isolation causing misery
    ‘solitary’ ~ alone,isolated
    ‘oyster’ ~ closed emotions (shell)
    • self - contained = keeps himself to himself
    • juxtaposing imagery - hard outer shell,beauty inside ( pearl )
    • links to ‘ solitary child , neglected by his friends ‘
  • ’ covetous,old sinner ‘ = theme of religious
    ( christianity )
    ‘ sinner ‘ ~ bad thing,villainous
  • ’ darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it ‘
    ‘ darkness ‘ = abstract noun that symbolises evilness,death destruction and lack of goodness
    ‘ cheap ‘ = darkness does not have much value
    = emphasises how he is morally corrupt and ready to associate with something that has no value
  • ’ the cold within him froze his features ‘
    ‘ cold ‘ = lacks emotion, unfriendly and unsympathetic character
    ‘ froze ‘ = illustrates image of scrooge’s features becoming unmovable
    = shows his crooked personality is so strong within that it has now become visible
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types of imagery throughout stave one

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cold weather :
- ‘ cold ‘ ‘ wintery weather chill ‘ ‘snow ‘ ‘ hail ‘
- radiates coldness - contrast to Fred and how he’s alone ( binary opposites )

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quotes about fred

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  • ’ a kind,forgiving,charitable time ‘ = not motivated by money
  • ’ glow ‘ = warmth,opposite of scrooge
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representation of marley

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  • committed sins ( ‘ chains ‘ ) = get to heaven by helping scrooge - ‘ pay off sins ‘
  • lives in purgatory = between heaven + hell
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thoughts on the poor / social responsibility

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  • ’ decrease the surplus population ‘ = poor people should be left to die
  • Thomas Malthus - writer that thought Britain was overpopulated and had a ‘surplus’ amount of people.
  • ’ mankind was my business ‘ = metaphor about using people for money,mankind suffered
  • past tense ‘ was ‘ = regret - mankind should have been a community
  • ’ mankind ‘ = generalising no care for individuals
  • ’ i wear the chains ive forged in life ‘
  • dickens’ core message of social responsibility
  • ’ forged ‘ = context of industrial revolution - poverty
  • personal pronoun ‘ I ‘ - Marley takes responsibility
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