a christmas carol characters Flashcards
solitary as an oyster
SCROOGE
• beginning
• cut off
• greed makes him miserable
bah humbug
SCROOGE
• beginning
• denying christmas
• saying it’s rubbish
• stuck in his ways
are there no prisons … workhouses ?
SCROOGE
• beginning
• uncharitable
• harsh to poor
• miserly and greedy
• sees poor as inhuman
he had the power to render us happy or unhappy
SCROOGE
• visiting fezziwig
• they had the power to control happiness of everyone below them
i will live in the past, present and the future
SCROOGE
• ending
• forgiven and can redeem himself
• rule of 3
• scrooges transformation
the clerks fire was so very much smaller
BOB CRATCHIT
• miserly and mean scrooge is
• used to being mistreated
a small pudding for a large family
BOB CRATCHIT
• oxymoron - small v large
• poor are grateful for what they have - may need more from charity to survive - underpaid - can’t provide
• still happy
my little little child
BOB CRATCHIT
• tiny tim death
• direct impact on scrooges actions
like a child … like an old man
GHOST OF XMAS PAST
• juxtaposition - simile
• child - innocence, old man - no innocence, greed and selfish
a small matter … to make these silly folks so full of gratitude
GHOST OF XMAS PAST
• mocking the party so scrooge can see his power
it’s light was burning … bright
GHOST OF XMAS PAST
• shows he is beginning to change
“jolly giant”
XMAS PRESENT
• jolly and happy
• like santa
• pleasant
yellow, meagre, ragged
XMAS PRESENT
• ignorance and want
• robbed of innocence
• scrooge and rich readers cause young children to suffer
this boy is ignorance, this girl is want
XMAS PRESENT
• ignorance - no education and can’t move up and may be criminals
• want - lack of things, want basic necessities
“deep black garment”
XMAS FUTURE
• darkness of phantom
• foreshadows his death - sees grave stone
