Jacob Marley Flashcards
(2 cards)
“Mankind was my buisiness”
1 → Marleys statement a form of altruism - realisation of how mankind should have been his priority - syntacticaly mankind is before buisness, shows he knows, sees priority but is too late
2 → Brevity of the sentence - mirrors the only short, quick and easy decisions he chose to ignore humanity, led to his demise
3 → Marley emblematic of Scrooge’s fate - Scrooge was his sole mourner
LINK → Stave 5, Nobody cared of Scrooge’s death “ what did he do with his money”
“I wear the chain I forged in life”
1 → Chains are made of links, infatuation of money is inextricably linked with isolation
2 → religious connotations to purgatory - chain might be heavy to showcase he is stuck in purgatory - so many sins to cleanse - scares the religious readers
3 → chain might not be literal, yet is instead the weight of his sins on his soul - emblematic to Scrooge’s “soul of lead”
LINK → “I am as light as a feather” - Scrooge has been freed / forgiven for his sins, and no longer feels the heavy burden he once felt
