A Christmas Carol Flashcards
(19 cards)
Comment on Scrooge’s happiness
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour”
Marley’s ghost explaining his problem
“I wear the chain I forged in life,”
Comment on Scrooge’s wasted opportunities
“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused” - Marley
Scrooge’s redeeming line
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me”.
Comment of the ghost of Christmas present about “want” and “ignorance”
“They are Man’s…. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both.” - Ghost of Christmas Present
Marley, about the mistakes of his business
“Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.” - Marley
Marley being dead
“Marley was dead: to begin with”
Tim’s kind words about Scrooge
“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge”
Scrooge’s signature words
“‘Bah’ said Scrooge, ‘Humbug’” - Scrooge
Comment on Scrooge’s laugh
“Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!”
Scrooge’s insensitive comment on death on the ‘positive’ affects it will have
“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population” - Scrooge
Description of Fan (Scrooge’s sister)
“Always a delicate creature, whom a breathe might have withered”
Scrooge’s complaint to the ghost of Christmas future out of fear, which shows he has become a changed man
“Spirit!” he cried, tight clutching at its robe, “hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse.” - Scrooge
Comment on Scrooges love for darkness and misuse of his own money
“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it”
How the Ghost of Christmas Past describes Scrooge’s change into a monetarily obsessed man.
“His nobler aspirations had fallen off one by one until the master passion, gain, engrossed him”.
Scrooges choice about his relationship
“He weighed everything by choosing gain, or her”.
Descriptions of Scrooge
“He was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone”
“Hard and sharp as Flint”
“Secret, and self contained, and solitary”
“The cold within him, froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue”
“Heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge”
What Scrooge asks the Ghost of the future, showing that he sees that there may be hope for him
“Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or the shadows of things that may be, only?” - Scrooge
Final line of A Christmas Carol
“God bless us, every one!”
