WHO SAID IT? Flashcards
“My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?”
Nobody
“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!”
Fred
“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”
Scrooge
“I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”
Fred
“The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?”
Scrooge
“We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner,”
The charitable gentlemen
“If quite convenient, sir.”
Bob Cratchit
“Ask me who I was.”
Marley’s ghost
“Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to-morrow, when the bell tolls One.”
Marley’s ghost
“Your lip is trembling and what is that upon your cheek?”
Ghost of Christmas Past
“A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”
Ghost of Christmas Past
“There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that’s all.”
Scrooge
3
“Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!”
Fran
“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.”
Scrooge
“Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!”
Scrooge
“You have never seen the like of me before!”
The Ghost of Christmas Present
“To-night, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.”
i
“God bless us every one!”
i
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
i
“What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
i
“Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”
i
“He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!”
i
“Marley was dead to begin with.”
Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about: intrigue and the unexpected
“he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”
Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about: a biased narrator
Technique: hyperbole
“Hard and sharp as flint”
Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about: Scrooge
Technique: simile
“Solitary as an oyster”
Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about Scrooge
Technique: simile
“I can’t afford to make idle people merry”
Scrooge
Stave One
Ideas about: attitudes to the poor
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
Scrooge
Stave One
Ideas about: Cold logic/ attitudes to the poor
“I wear the chain I forged in life”
Jacob Marley
Stave One
Ideas about: Consequences and fate
“From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light.”
Stave Two
Ideas about: symbols (truth)
“Your reclamation, then. Take heed!”
Ghost of Christmas Past
Stave Two
Ideas about: Redemption/ Transformation
“Your lip is trembling,” said the Ghost. “And what is that upon your cheek?”
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Stave Two
Ideas about: Redemption/Transformation and emotion
“A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Stave Two
Ideas about: Childhood and determinism
“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy […] The happiness he gives is quite as much as if it cost a fortune.”
Scrooge
Stave Two
Ideas about: Generosity and leadership
“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall of one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you.”
Belle
Stave Two
Ideas about: Obsession and avarice (extreme greed)
“Remove me!” Scrooge exclaimed. “I cannot bear it!”
Scrooge
Stave Two
Ideas about: Truth and reflection
“these young Cratchits danced about the table.”
Stave Three
Ideas about: Childhood and determinism
‘With an interest he had never felt before…“No, no…Oh no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared” ‘
Scrooge
Stave Three
Ideas about: Redemption/Transformation and empathy
“If he die, he better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
i
“I am sorry for him […] Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always.”
i
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both […] They are Man’s”
i
“Plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man”
i
“Avarice, hard dealing, griping cares? They have brought him to a rich end, truly!”
i
“The kind hand trembled.”
i
“No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial…heavenly sky, sweet fresh air.”
i
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy…I am as giddy as a drunken man”
i
“I don’t know how long I have been among the Spirits. I don’t know anything. I’m quite a baby.”
i
Scrooge regarded everyone with a delighted smile.”
i
“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
i
“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.”
i
“Open our shut up hearts freely”
i
