Stave One Flashcards
[AO1 QUOTES]
‘‘Old Marley was as dead as a doornail’’
Shows;
Marley’s outcome, foreshadows what will happen to scrooge
[A01 QUOTES]
‘‘Sole friend and sole mourner’’
Shows;
Shows that scrooge will end up in the same place as Marley; Dead with no-one to mourn
[A01 QUOTES]
‘‘Bah! Humbug’’
Shows;
That scrooge is miserable and hates Christmas.
[A01 QUOTES]
‘‘Nobody ever stopped him in the street.’’
Shows;
He was known to be mean and no-one took interest in him.
[A01 QUOTES]
‘‘Are there no prisons?’’
Shows;
Scrooge isn’t interested in the poor and thinks that it is someone else’s problem to deal with
[A01 QUOTES]
‘‘I believe that it has done me good and will do me good, and I say god bless it!’’
Shows;
Fred enjoying christmas and having true christmas spirit
[A02 TECHNIQUES]
Use of pathetic fallacy
cold weather= scrooges cold aura
[A02 TECHNIQUES]
Depressing and dark description of Victorian London
Reflects scrooges personality
[A02 TECHNIQUES]
Antithesis [opposite] of fred
To highlight scrooges failure as a human being
[A03 CONTEXT]
Scrooge represents
A head-Hearted Victorian capitalist whom Dickins is addressing. his poor treatment of his clerk represents this.
[A03 CONTEXT]
lesson of CHARITY+FAMILY
Scrooge, like the reader, has to learn the lesson of Charity + Family. What is most important in life? He wont donate to the poor, and dickens wants to use this to show that people should donate to charity and help the poor.