Themes: Isolation

Question 1

Which character begins the novella isolated?

Answer 1

Scrooge

Question 2

Which character dies in isolation as the novella begins?

Answer 2

Marley

Question 3

How is Scrooge’s isolation contrasted to other characters in the Novella?

Answer 3

Scrooge is completely and utterly alone whereas Fred and Bob Cratchit regularly spend time with family where they are at their happiest (despite their evident poverty).

Question 4

Quotations to present isolation in ACC

Answer 4

Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. (S1)
Secret, and self-contained and solitary as an oyster. (S1)
A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still. (S2)
On it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man. (S4)
He lay, in the dark, empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child, to say that he was kind to me in this or that. (S4)