a christmas carol

Question 1

parsimonious

Answer 1

describes scrooge in stave 1 as greed and stingy and refusing to help

Question 2

miser

Answer 2

describes scrooge in stave 1 as being stingy and not helping anyone

Question 3

archetypal villian

Answer 3

describes scrooge in stave 1 as representing something bad and rude and miserable

Question 4

ostracised

Answer 4

describes scrooge in stave 1 as being an outsider and secluding himself away from society

Question 5

avaricious

Answer 5

describes scrooge in stave 1 as valuing money more than anything and being very greedy

Question 6

apathetic

Answer 6

describes scrooge in stave 1 as being cold and how his apathetic nature leads him to be ostracised

Question 7

‘the cold within him froze his old features’

Answer 7

dickens uses an extended metaphor of conceit to show how the relentless cold hold parrallel to scrooges distant and cold nature.

Question 8

external heat and cold had little influence

Answer 8

shows how his in internal apathy and detachment is so omnipotent it alters his physical apperance. also shows how he has succesfully ostrasiced himself

Question 9

emblem of?

Answer 9

dickens goes on to show how he is an emblem of victorian upper class and he exasibates his presentation of being bad

Question 10

‘squeezing, wrenching, grasping , scraping, altering covetous old sinner’

Answer 10

reflects the seven deadly sins and how the rich are the sinners and not the poor. also shows how hes an archetypal sinner in the context of an impoverished society.

Question 11

‘squeezing’

Answer 11

reflects how he is struggling to deal with human interaction and want to be away fro, everyone

Question 12

‘are there no prisons’

Answer 12

shows his malthusian views and how he doesnt regard the poor as anything as a means to decrease the surplus population

Question 13

dickens criticism

Answer 13

dickens wants to critique that social injustice is synonymous with avariciousness from the upper class and how the rich perpetuate bad thing in society that need to change

Question 14

‘the fog and darkness thickened’

Answer 14

dickens uses the weather as a motif to reflect scrooge and resemble the bleakness of scrooge.

Question 15

context of the fog

Answer 15

in 1873-1879 the fog killed people in london and this shows how the rich have the power in society and how they kill the poor

Question 16

‘piercing, searching, biting cold’

Answer 16

this personification shows that the power of nature may be an allusion for the forthecoming of the supernatural.