Stave 1

Question 1

setting

Answer 1

London

Question 2

what year was ACC set in

Answer 2

1843

Question 3

what time period was ACC set in

Answer 3

Victorian

Question 4

how does stave 1 open

Answer 4

with Scrooge in his “counting house”

Question 5

how does stave 1 finish

Answer 5

with Scrooge in his house

Question 6

what is Scrooge’s job

Answer 6

businessman

Question 7

who was Scrooge’s partner

Answer 7

Jacob Marley

Question 8

how long has Marley been dead for

Answer 8

7 years

Question 9

what is scrooge a representation of in stave 1

Answer 9

egocentric embodiement of upper class males of the time

Question 10

what type of conversation occurs between Scrooge and his nephew?

Answer 10

Dickens uses dramatic tension
Fred is the antithesis of Scrooge
Alludes to Derrida’s psychoanalytical theory that writers use binary pairs to generate conflict

Question 11

Scrooge Stave 1
Represents his misanthropic nature towards Christmas
Subversive because Christmas should be a time for love and happiness

Answer 11

“Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart”

Question 12

Scrooge Stave 1

Represents Scrooge as an embodiment of lacking compassion to those of a less fortunate standard of living

Answer 12

“Are there no prisons?”

Question 13

Scrooge Stave 1

Repeat phrase by Dickens presents the monotonous aspect of his personality that he limits himself to a few set phrases

Answer 13

“Bah… Humbug”

Question 14

The novel begins with exposition

Answer 14

“Marley was dead, to begin with”

Question 15

Stave 1 description
The room reflects the persona that Scrooge emits
The dullness of the word “bare” represents the bleak aspect of the room and the lack of excitement

Answer 15

“a bare melancholy room”

Question 16

Stave 1 description of Scrooge
The pathetic fallacy that Scrooge is actually inhuman
Relentless and irrepressibly solemn nature

Answer 16

“The cold within him froze his old features”

Question 17

Stave 1 description of Scrooge
Asyndetic listing of present continuous verbs suggests his constant oppressive behaviour
Aural imagery with the sibilance
Relates to the Victorian religious beliefs that everyone was a sinner

Answer 17

“a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping… covetous old sinner”

Question 18

Stave 1 description of Scrooge
The syndetic superlative listing
never-ending list of adverse qualities

Answer 18

“The heaviest rain and snow and hail…”

Question 19

Stave 1 Marleys Ghost
Alludes to religion in Victorian times
that your sins will forever weigh you down
Dickens message to all readers is to live freely

Answer 19

“I wear the chain I forged in life”

Question 20

Scrooge and Fred Stave 1
Scrooge’s genuine concern/question that he doesn’t believe in love. Perhaps foreshadows the love he never received, an unrecognisable feeling?

Answer 20

"”Why did you get married?” Scrooge

“Because I fell in love” Fred”

Question 21

Stave 1 Fred

Antithesis to Scrooge’s view and hatred for Christmas

Answer 21

“… a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time…”

Question 22

Stave 1 Scrooge
Dickens constructs him as a representation of avarice
Avarice is one of the seven deadly sins in Christianity
Victorians were very religious so would also begin to dislike Scrooge due to this nature

Answer 22

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge”

Question 23

Stave 1 Scrooge
Theme of responsibility
Scrooge believes the only responsibility he has is for his businesses not for the people around him.
Foil character to the “portly gentlemen” who provide charitable donations to support the poor

Answer 23

“I help to support the establishments I have mentioned- they cost enough”