A Christmas Carol Flashcards
(20 cards)
Stave 1
Scrooge’s isolation
” Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, … his sole friend, and sole mourner.”
Stave 1
Nature of Christmas
“The only time I know of … when men and women seem … to think of people below them.”
Stave 1
Marley’s sins
“Mankind was my business.”
Stave 1
Marley’s presence
“incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret”
Stave 1
Regret
“they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.”
Stave 2
Scrooge’s reluctance of his past
“would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?”
Stave 2
Scrooge as a child
“Scrooge … wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.”
Stave 2
Scrooge’s new outlook on employees
“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy”
Stave 2
Scrooge becoming a miser
“Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you … I have no just cause to grieve.’ “
Stave 3
The Cratchit’s Christmas
“Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration.”
Stave 3
Scrooge being isolated
“he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm.”
Stave 3
Present and hope
“The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful”
Stave 4
Scrooge being isolated
“He knew these men, also, perfectly … in a business point of view, that is; strictly in a business point of view.”
Stave 4
Scrooge’s treatment after death
” If he wanted to keep ‘em after he was dead …why wasn’t he natural in his lifetime”
Stave 4
Other’s opinion of scrooge after death
” ‘Nothing is past hope, if such a miracle has happened.’ He is past relenting,’ said her husband. ‘He is dead.’ “
Stave 4
Tiny Tim’s death
” ‘I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was; although he was a little, little child’ “
Stave 4
Scrooge’s grave
“the growth of vegetation’s death, not life; choked up with too much burying, far with repleted appetite. A worthy place!”
Stave 5
Scrooge’s revelation
“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. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”
Stave 5
Scrooge being social
“Let him in! It is a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off. He was at home in five minutes…wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness!”
Stave 5
Scrooge being generous
“I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family”
