Scrooge Flashcards

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Every idiot who goes around with merry Christmas on his lips Gould be buried with a steak of holly through his heart

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Comical but unpleasant shows how dickens creates a voice using his humour
He can’t accept generosity that is given to him and instead turns images of Christmas into images of violence

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Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?

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Reflects the Victorian society and how dickens is showing he is against the society and wants things to change because dickens is against Scrooge and portrays him in a negative light

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No warmth could warm him no wintery weather could chill him

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Uses pathetic fallacy to represent scrooges nature

The weather is a metaphor for scrooges behaviour because he can’t be made warmer or colder by it

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As the clerk came in with the shovel the master decided that it would be necessary for them to part

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Indirect speech shows how Scrooge is threatening and always wants to be in charge
He is predictable and will not give cratchet permission to get more coal

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You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard a crumb of cheese

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Although Scrooge is afraid of the ghost he tries to maintain authority even over his own senses

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