Scrooge Quotations and Analysis - CC Flashcards
Christmas Carol (12 cards)
Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name
Marley has just died p3 S1
Emotive - Implies S didn’t care and didn’t want to waste money. Shows he feels unemotional. Makes the reader feel unsympathetic and not caring about S from the start.
Secret and self contained, and solitary as an oyster
p3 S1
Triple/ Siblilance/ Simile/ Foreshadows - Tells the reader he doesn’t care about others and keeps to himself, doesn’t have many family amd friends. ‘Oyster’ has connotations of being dull on the outside but has a pearl inside - implies/foreshadows Scrooge isn’t all bad and has potential of being special. It was once a food of the poor - links to social responsiblilty
He carried his own low temperature always about with him
p4 S1
Metaphor - Shows he’s a cold person physically and emotionally. Implies to the reader that he isn’t a nice person to be around as cold has connotations of being unfriendly/ unwelcome
Nobody ever stopped him in the street… no beggars… no children… no man or woman
p4 S1
Triple - Tells the reader that he is unaproachable and has a bad reputation that everyone is aware of. Even deperate people don’t want to talk to him, portays S as an outsider
It was the very thing he liked
Everyone avoiding Scrooge p4 S1
Short Sentence - Relfects S quick temper and agression. Tells the reader that S likes being an outsider in society
Bah! Humbug
Scrooge responding to Fred wishing him a Merry Christmas p5 S1
Exclaimation/Emotive - ‘Humbug’ refers to something deceptive or fraudulent, S suggests Christmas is a sham. He thinks its a waste of money and time. This further excludes him from society.
Are there no prisons… Union workhouses?
Scrooge to Charity Workers p8 S1
Emotive/ Repitition later in book by GCPr - Notions of deserving, shows S believes that this is the right place for the poor, lack of social responsiblity
Dicken’s father went to Debtor’s Prison, he’s saying they are unnessary.
The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigor then?
Scrooge to charity workers - p9 S1
Context/ Question - Treadmill was a punishment in prisons where they were forced to walk up lots of stairs for long periods of time. Poor Law (1834) reduced financial help for the poor, they could only recieve help if they entered the workhouse. S belives that they are useful and the poor deserve the punishments they get
If they would rather die…do it and decrease the surplus population
Scrooge to the charity workers p9 - S1
Emotive/ dialogue - S echoes the Malthusian belief that the pop. will always outway the food supply. S comes across as ruthless and tells the reader that he has no care or consideration for the poor. Links with social responsibility.
A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every 25th of December!
Scrooge to Mr C after having to pay for his X-mas leave p11- S1
Exclamation/ Metaphor- S has an obession with hording money and views paying his clerk’s salary as being robbed. S has such a possesiveness over his money that he can’t pay 1 day without getting angry.
Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it
p14- S1
Shows S is too miserly to pay for candles, the antithesis of darkness is light which has connotations with goodness and truth- Scrooge has difficultly facing this and is happy where he is- he doesn”t want to change as a person
