Christmas carol quotes

Question 1

“misanthropic ice”

Answer 1

embodies the cold, uncaring attitude of scrooge-keeping apart from humankind

the ice symbolises the frozen nature of scrooges heart lacking in any joy

it also used to describe the physical setting of London highlighting the bleak and dreary atmosphere of London

Question 2

solitary as an oyster

Answer 2

simile
isolated and cut off-possible with inner goodness

oyster-creates a sense of that there might be goodness or a potential for positive charge

the oyster could symbolise how his isolated state is a protective shell he portrays which may be hindering him from feeling joy and happiness

Question 3

oh! a squeezing, wrenching ,grasping, clutching, scraping covetous old sinner

Answer 3

seven deadly sins especially avaricious

all hand related

!-highlights how even the narrator is horrified by scrooges nature

asyndetic listing-creates a sense of rapid fire and forceful effect

sinful actions

Question 4

“are there no prisons or workhouses?”

Answer 4

his lack of empathy and callous justification for the treatment of the poor

dismissive attitude to the poor

Dickens wanted to highlight how we need to take more responsibility for the less fortunate and

Dickens also anted to show that Scrooge was just a microcosm of how people don’t help the less fortunate