Stave 4

Question 1

I fear you more than any spectre I have seen

Answer 1

He describes the final ghost vaguely as to imply the future is vague and unknown. It’s what makes it frightening

Question 2

I hope to live to be another man from what I was

Answer 2

Scrooge seeks redemption. However the past tense phrase ‘as I was’ suggests that his beliefs have already changed

Question 3

Lead on.

Answer 3

Scrooge is letting the Spirit have the power and control as he is the one who can help Scrooge change the path of his future. This contrasts Scrooge in stave 2

Question 4

Chinked the money

Answer 4

Dickens presents the wealth gap between the upper and lower classes by the fact the wealthy have enough that it chinks when the poor have nothing

Question 5

A great fat man with a monstrous chin

Answer 5

Described with unnatural disturbing features as to dehumanise them and visualise their ugly deeds in their faces

Question 6

When did he die

Answer 6

Scrooge was so insignificant, his death was of no importance

Question 7

Very large snuff-box

Answer 7

Tobacco was very expensive during the industrial Revolution as it need to be shipped in from abroad and required a lot of manpower. Further shows off their wealth

Question 8

It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral

Answer 8

Mirrors Marley’s funeral when Scrooge was only concerned with money. People don’t care enough to give him any extravagance, even in death

Question 9

They were men of aye business: very wealthy, and of great importance.

Answer 9

During life, these would have been the men Scrooge would usually interact with and seeing the men care so little show how little of a positive impact he has made

Question 10

Old Scratch

Answer 10

Nickname for Satan or the Devil

Question 11

Unseen Eyes we’re looking at him keenly

Answer 11

Double meaning as it could be looking at Scrooge positively or sharply

Question 12

It made him shudder, and feel very cold

Answer 12

Juxtaposes Scrooge in Stave 1 and suggests he has warmed up

Question 13

The whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery.

Answer 13

Shows the desperate state the poor were living in and caused rich readers to sympathise more with the poor

Question 14

Corrupted fat

Answer 14

Use of the adjective is interesting as it paints a vivid, chilling image of the conditions some people lived in. It also suggest that corruption is the reason behind it

Question 15

Sepulchres of bones

Answer 15

Tombs of bone represent the large amount of death in these conditions

Question 16

Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did.

Answer 16

They are only taking care of themselves but for them it’s a crime whilst when Scrooge stole from the working class no one cared, highlighting the large class divide.

Question 17

Why wasn’t he natural in his lifetime.

Answer 17

Scrooge was so unloving that he died alone and was stolen from. The thieves represent Scrooge’s prior obsession with money

Question 18

He isn’t likely to take cold without them, I dare say.

Answer 18

Dark humour suggesting the found Scrooge’s death a joke and it brought joy to peoples lives

Question 19

Putting it on him to be buried in, to be sure

Answer 19

Scrooge is being cynically mocked demonstrating a clear a scene of sympathy

Question 20

As they sat grouped about their spoil

Answer 20

Moment is symbolic of the effects of hard hearted news. It is cyclical as all the times Scrooge treated others poorly has resulted in them showing complete disrespect towards his death as they have nothing left to lose

Question 21

A bare, uncurtained bed:

Answer 21

He had been stripped of all his materials and belongings to reveal his inner personality - awful and ragged

Question 22

A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed;

Answer 22

Dickens effectively builds tensions by directing the attention purely on the bed

Question 23

Avarice

Answer 23

Extreme wealth and greed

Question 24

Rich end

Answer 24

He’s rich in wealth but not in good deeds. Money has no value in death only good deeds you have done in life now benefit

Question 25

We may sleep to-night with light hearts

Answer 25

The couple shows no remorse for Scrooge ad they are no longer controlled by him though debt

Question 26

Quiet. Very quiet

Answer 26

Contrasts with the busy and joyful life in Stave 3. Tiny Tim’s death has affected the family so much. Scrooge has never had such familial support in life or death

Question 27

And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them.

Answer 27

One of many biblical references

Question 28

But I think he has walked a little slower than he used,

Answer 28

Symbolic as Bob is walking slower now that he isn’t carrying Tiny Tim on his shoulders. Emphasises how Dickens didn’t see the disabled as burdens on society

Question 29

But he was very light to carry

Answer 29

Dickens never directly confirms Tiny Tim’s death and leaves you to infer that for yourself.

Question 30

Green

Answer 30

Colour is representative of many things including new life which Tiny Tim would have in Heaven but also greed and money which is a preferred,ant theme thoughout the novella

Question 31

My dear

Answer 31

The Cratchit family is the antithesis to the Scrooge family.

Question 32

If I can be of service to you in any way

Answer 32

Fred starts a cycle of change by offering to help someone of a lower class. It gives the family a sense of hope for the future and Dickens uses Fred as a character to represent how positive change within society can be

Question 33

I am sure we shall none of us forget poor Tiny Tim

Answer 33

It juxtaposes the other deaths in the story as he had people who mourn for him because of his kindness in life

Question 34

Tell me what man that was whom we saw lying dead

Answer 34

Scrooge is still ignorant about the Ghost’s message and stubbornly ignores all hints that the death is his

Question 35

Inexorable finger

Answer 35

Scrooge is unable to stop the Ghost like he is inane to prevent the future of he doesn’t change

Question 36

Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only

Answer 36

Syntactic parallelism

Question 37

Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went;

Answer 37

Dramatic irony as the reader knows the gravestone is his but Scrooge does not know yet

Question 38

I am not the man I was

Answer 38

Scrooge implies he is going to change linking to the theme of redemption

Question 39

The kind hand trembled

Answer 39

Scrooge’s pleading causes the immovable spirit to show compassion emphasising his powerful emotions