scrog VS frog Flashcards
Who does Scrooge represent?
The rich, the societal elite, the employer
What does Dickens use Scrooge to encourage?
Moral change
“Oh! … Tight-…”
“Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone”
Oh = Narrator is overwhelmed at how outrageously unpleasant Scrooge is
A man who doesn’t spend money without good reason
“Squeezing, wrenching…”
“Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”
Asyndetic list, verbs, all connected with the hands, gripping tightly to everything he has, selfish, miserly, ill-mannered, egoistical
“The cold within him…”
“The cold within him froze his old features”
Symbolises him being cold-hearted
“The cold within him froze his…”
“The cold within him froze his old features”
“He carried his own low temperature always about with him”
“solitary as”
“solitary as an oyster”
“Hard and…”
“Hard and sharp as flint”
“Scrooge was his sole executor…”
“Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and his sole mourner”
“Bah…”
“Bah! Humbug”
What does “humbug” mean?
Something to deceive and mislead.
What does the use of “humbug” suggest?
Scrooge is being deceptive and insincere, or Fred is.
“If they would rather die…”
“If they would rather die…they better do it and decrease the surplus population”
“Jacob tell me more…”
“Jacob tell me more! Speak comfort to me, Jacob”
“Marley’s ghost bothered…”
“Marley’s Ghost bothered him exceedingly”
