Stave Two Flashcards
1
Q
‘it isn’t possible’
A
- Repetition - adds emphasis
- Disbelief
- Incomprehensible
2
Q
‘not so like a child as like an old man’
A
- Not restrained to age or time
- Contrast
- Powerful
- Unhuman
3
Q
‘would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?’
A
- Dismissive
- Uninterested in developing spirituality
- Obsessed with material things
- Distinction between living and dead
- Impurity
- Learning
- Hope for change
4
Q
‘A solitary child, neglected’
A
- Always alone
- Becomes a habit
- Lack of care
- Selfishness
- Extremity of this absence
5
Q
‘poor forgotten self’
A
- Sympathetic
- Not cared for
- Connotes neglect
- Has repressed the traumatic memory
6
Q
‘a fiddler with a music book … and made an orchestra out of it’
A
- Contrast
- So much from so little
- Gratitude
- Material possessions mean little, it is what you make of them that matters
7
Q
‘weigh everything by Gain’
A
- Importance of value to Scrooge
- Can’t understand love
- Values relationships that he benefits from
8
Q
‘alone again’
‘Quite alone in the world’
A
- Frequency is emphasised
- Never truly cared for
- Misguided preconception of what love is
