ACC Flashcards
(20 cards)
- Scrooge’s promise represents his full transformation and commitment to kindness generosity and the true spirit of Christmas
“I will honour Christmas in my heart”
- Scrooge’s cold question shows how he justifies ignoring the poor by relying on cruel institutions to deal with them
“Are there no prisons”
- Scrooge repeats a harsh Malthusian idea showing his lack of empathy and how he sees poor lives as disposable
“If they would rather die they had better do it”
- Tiny Tim’s blessing shows the importance of love and innocence and highlights the theme of Christian charity
“God bless us every one”
- Marley reveals that he is suffering in death because of his selfishness in life which acts as a warning to Scrooge
“I wear the chain I forged in life”
- Scrooge shows that he has accepted the lessons of the spirits and no longer wants to remain cruel and greedy
“I am not the man I was”
- This quote sums up how Scrooge completely changes into a generous caring person who brings joy to others
“He became as good a friend as the good old city knew”
- Dickens uses these two symbolic children to show how society’s failure to care for the poor will lead to disaster
“This boy is Ignorance This girl is Want”
- Marley is forever punished showing that actions in life have eternal consequences if we do not live with compassion
“I cannot rest I cannot stay I cannot linger anywhere”
- The narrator shows Scrooge as a lonely and abandoned child which helps the reader understand his cold personality later in life
“A solitary child neglected by his friends”
- Scrooge’s offer to help the Cratchits proves that he has become generous and finally understands the value of kindness
“I’ll raise your salary and assist your struggling family”
- Scrooge’s hatred of Christmas is so extreme that he uses violent imagery which shows how far he has distanced himself from joy and community
“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.”.
- Scrooge becomes like a father to Tiny Tim which symbolises healing and the importance of found family
“To Tiny Tim who did NOT die he was a second father”
- Scrooge’s love of darkness represents his isolation and how he avoids human connection and warmth
“Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it”
- This cold statement shows that Scrooge sees the poor as a problem to be eliminated not helped
“Decrease the surplus population”
- Fred’s cheerful view of Christmas shows that generosity and community bring happiness unlike Scrooge’s selfishness
“A good time a kind forgiving charitable pleasant time”
- Scrooge desperately begs for a second chance showing that he truly regrets his past and wants redemption
“Tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone”
- Scrooge goes above and beyond to repay his debt to society showing genuine repentance and moral growth
“Not a farthing less A great many back-payments are included in it”
- The Ghost of Christmas Present welcomes Scrooge with warmth and kindness which begins his emotional transformation
“Come in and know me better man”
- The repetition creates fear and suspense showing the inevitability of death and the serious tone of Scrooge’s final lesson
“The phantom slowly gravely silently approached”
