A Christmas Carol Flashcards
(20 cards)
Scrooge is a cold secretive, dark person with lack of emotion. He’s described in a particular simile.
‘Hard and sharp as flint from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret and self-contained, and as solitary as an oyster.’
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People disliked Scrooge as a person and wouldn’t hesitate to let him know and try to change him, referring to him as a ‘dark master’.
‘No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!’
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Scrooge is questioned by his nephew about a subject Scrooge disregards and complains about.
‘What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer.’
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When Scrooge is visited by the two gentlemen, he is asked about donating to charity. He responds in a rude manner, already knowing what to say without thinking twice about it which shows he has definitely thought about the topic before.
‘I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.’
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Learning more about Scrooge’s character, the reader sees that Scrooge is the lonely, cold misanthropist in the story who hides away from the world in greed and hatred.
‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern.’
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The Ghost of The Christmas past is talking to Scrooge about his former self when he was a boy.
‘A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.’ Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.’
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The Ghost of The Christmas Past is showing Scrooge’s ex fiance speaking to Scrooge as a young man and what she said to him when they broke up.
‘I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.’
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The Ghost of The Christmas Present tells Scrooge about Tiny Tim.
‘If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.’
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After The Ghost of The Christmas Present tells Scrooge Tiny Tim will die, Scrooge reacts with an emotion that shows he cares.
'’No, no,’ said Scrooge. `Oh, no, kind Spirit. say he will be spared.’’
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When Scrooge is taken to his nephews house, he overhears Fred talking to his niece about him.
‘His offences carry their own punishment.’
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The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Be shows Scrooge what happens to him and how others react to what’s happened.
‘He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead!’
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Once Scrooge sees what happens if he continued to live the way he did, he changes his mind about Christmas.
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.’
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The author shows a clear change in Scrooge and describes him as a father figure.
‘[…] to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.’
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Scrooge finds out what happens to him in the future.
‘Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, Ebenezer Scrooge.’
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Scrooge gets out of bed after all three spirits have visited him and he speaks to himself, mentioning Marley and the three spirits.
‘The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh, Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!’
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Scrooge becomes a changed man and speaks to Bob in a way he’s never spoke to him before, also offering to do something he wouldn’t usually offer.
‘I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore, […] and therefore I am about to raise your salary!’
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Scrooge expresses his opinion about what should happen to people who enjoy Christmas.
‘If I could work my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “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. He should!’
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Scrooge is observing the Cratchit family and how happy they are with what they have, repeating a phrase that gives them comfort and safety.
‘A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!” Which all the family re-echoed. “God bless us, every one!” said Tiny Tim, the last of all.’
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Scrooge changes at the end and Charles Dickens describes him with a repetitive adjective.
‘Scrooge was better than his word . . . . He became as good a friend, as good a master, as good a man as the good old City knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world.’
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Scrooge is watching his nephew and his niece laughing together.
‘It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that, while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.’
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