A Christmas Carol Flashcards
(26 cards)
Scrooge - Characteristics
- Evil
- Cold hearted
- Isolated from society
- Greedy
- Selfish
- Doesn’t help the poor
- Intimidating
- Hostile
- Lives alone
- Disrespectful
- Miserable
- Stubborn
- Doesn’t love his family
Fred - Characteristics
- Tries to change Scrooge
- Happy
- Spiritual
- Cheerful
- Christmas Spirit
Bob Cratchit - Characteristics
- Loves his family
- Happy and cheerful
- Hardworking
- Good-natured
- Devoted to Tiny Tim
- Sensitive
- Gentle
- Refuse to criticise Scrooge
The charity collectors - Characteristics
- Social responsibility
- Generosity
Jacob Marley - Characteristics
- Scrooge’s business Partner
- (dead) “Marley’d dead to begin with”
- Died 7 years ago
- Dickens FORESHADOWS Marley’s appearance later on the text
- Scrooge’s only friend
- Transparent
The Ghost of the Christmas Past - Characteristics
- Strange figure
- Shows the past of Scrooge’s relationship with Belle
- Feeziwig
- “Scrooge felt sorry when he’s little”
Belle - Characteristics
- Scrooge’s fiancé
- Poor
- Breaks off the engagement
The Ghost of the Christmas Present - Characteristics
- Joyful
- Cheerful
- Constant laughing
- Honest
Ignorance and Want - Characteristics
- Crime
- Poverty
- Boy turns to a thief
- Girls turns in to a prostitute
The Ghost of the Christmas Future - Characteristics
- Similar to death
- Dark Figure
- Never speaks
- Directs Scrooge
- Encourages Scrooge to change
Tiny Tim - Characteristics
- Caring
- Part in the Christmas present
Mrs Dilber - Characteristics
- Maid of Scrooge
- Stealing Scrooge’s curtains (the scene after his death)
Scrooge Transformed - Characteristics
- Changed
- Joyful
- Sharing
- Sympathy
- Guilt-free
The Cratchits - Characteristics
- Importance of Family
- Togetherness
- Loving
Scrooge - Key Quotes
- “Bah humbug” - way to get money
- “What Christmas time to - but a time to pay bills”
- “Why did you get married?” - He doesn’t understand love anymore
- ” I don’t make merry myself”
- “I can’t afford to make idol people merry”
Fred - Key Quotes
“Merry Christmas Uncle”
“A good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time”
“I need to give him the same chance every, if he likes it or not for I pity him”
Bob Cratchit - Key Quotes
Bob Cratchit is keen for Peter his older son to start working as a “man of business” while Martha works ‘hard’ as a milliners apprentice - Dickens emphasizes that the Cratchit children aren’t lazy or unwilling to work
The charity collectors - Key Quotes
“At this festive time, we are endeavoring to buy the meat for the poor”
“We choose this time because it is a time of all others when want is keenly felt and an abundance rejoiced”
Jacob Marley - Key Quotes
The chains were made up of cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought made of steel. (The chains represents his sins)
“If you don’t change, you’ll end up like me”
“I wear these chains to forge the life”
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business, charity, mercy forbearance and benevolence”
The Ghost of Christmas Past - Key Quotes
The arms were long and muscular
“Strange figure like achieved like a child: yet not so like a child as”
“There sprung a bright clear jet of light by which all this was visible in it’s duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap”
“Solitary child neglected by his friends” / Left there still
During this whole time, Scrooge acted like a man of his wits his heart and soul were in this scene and with his former self
Belle - Key Quotes
“Another idol has replaced me…a golden one”
“You were another man”
“But if you were free today, tomorrow, yesterday can even I believe that you would choose dowerless girl…i release you with a full heart for the love of him you once were”
The Ghost of Christmas Present - Key Quotes
“Children running out of the snow” to greet “sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts” the cheerful company”
“Most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is doom unless the writing be erased”
“If these shadows remain unaltered, the child will die”
“If they gonna die, the better do it and decrease the surplus population”
“They are mans”
“This boy is ignorance, this girl want”
The Ghost of Christmas yet to come - Key Quotes
“Shrouded in a deep black garment”
“It is likely to be a very cheap funeral…I don’t know anybody to it”
Tiny Tim - Key Quotes
He hopes people see him in church because he wants to remind people about “who made lame beggars walk” (Jesus). He also echoes his father’s toast “God bless us, everyone.
