ACC Key Quotes Flashcards
Scrooge believes it to be impossible to have a good Christmas when you have to provide for a family.
“15 shillings a-week and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. I’ll retire to Bedlam.”
Literary reference to a man who commits act of kindness in exchange for punishment.
Stave 5.
In a rush.
Metaphor.
“making a Laocoon of himself with his stockings”
Short rude exclamation.
Used to describe people who don’t like christmas.
“Bah!” “Humbug”
Foreshadowing for further on in the novel.
Time.
Stave 1.
“What’s Christmas to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer…”
Which simile can be used to show Scrooge prefers not to communicate, to stay hidden away and to have a hard and harsh front yet is soft and could hold something great on the inside.
“Solitary as an oyster”
Scrooge is cold through and through.
Nothing that happens around him (e.g. the weather) affects his manner.
“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.”
“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.”
Which technique is being used here?
Weather used as a metaphor for Scrooge’s behaviour: he cannot be forced to become warmer or colder. Pathetic fallacy used to present Scrooge’s nature.
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese…” is a quote spoken by Scrooge, why might he have said this?
- He doesn’t want to believe that the ghost is really there and that there is a possibility of him weakening.
- Scrooge trying to maintain his authority and put on a brave face as though the ghost doesn’t bother him when he’s terrified.
Scrooge shows depreciation toward the poor when talking to charity men.
Poor people are what is left over of the required living standards.
Rather than waiting for him to donate money, Scrooge suggests they had better get on and die.
“If they had rather die…they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”
Ghost of Christmas present speaks emotively.
The danger of a child’s life.
Scrooge failed to have a family therefore shouldn’t ruin others.
Scrooge has the dilemma.
Stave 3.
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
A warning to Scrooge to be wary of stuck up people who have no care for anything but themselves, but also people who don’t have enough and would do anything to have a better life.
Children are born equal, yet are taught in the areas and the scenes they grow in.
Children of high relevance in this quote.
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both.”
Scrooge’s death of better use than being alive.
People gained from his death.
Bad impressions made on people must be changed.
Stave 4.
Charwoman to Old Joe.
“He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead!”
Sarcasm.
Stave 1.
Scrooge implies that he already funds enough with his taxes without having to pay something else for people who can’t themselves.
Rhetorical question(s).
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
Scrooge put no thought into the send off of his dear friend Marley.
People expect him to choose the cheap route.
Stave 1.
“On the very day of the funeral, solemnised it with an undoubted bargain”.
The ghost’s messages have gotten through to Scrooge and he has learned from his mistakes: the ones that have been made, in the past; the ones that are being made, in the present and the ones that are yet to be made, in the future.
“I will honour Christmas in my heart. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
