Stave 2 Flashcards
(18 cards)
'’your welfare’
- simple short sentence
- to the point, reflecting the gentle yet impactful influence past events and memories have on the present
‘the grasp, though gentle as a woman’s had was not to be resisted’
- emphasises how although the past is distant
- memories have a strong influence
-‘not to be resisted’= past cannot be escaped
‘would you so soon put out the light that I give’
- scrooge is reluctant to see the truth
- wants to suppress past
‘it wore a tunic of the purest white’
- innocence and moral authority
- truth and purity
- could be representative of scrooges childhood before corruption of gain
‘there was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye which showed the passion that had taken root’
- eyes are looking for more
- sin of greed
- taken root suggests it is like a disease growing inside of him corrupting him
‘fuel was heaped upon the fire’
- character foil for scrooge
- abundance of generosity and benevolence represented by fire
‘a strange figure, like a child; yet not so like a child as like an old man’
- could reflect distant past and also how new memories are contuses to be made
‘from the crown of its head there sprang a bright clear jet of light’
- beacon which guides you
- holy and religious connotations
- symbolising truth
- past van guide people towards bettering themselves
‘a small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude’
- costs nothing to be polite and show compassion
- deep sense of thankfulness
- causes scrooge to reflect on his treatment of others
‘strange to have forgotten it for so many years’
- emotional detachment
- consequences of neglecting your past
‘your lip is trembling and what is that tear upon your cheek’
- capacity for redemption
- display of emotion and vulnerability
‘quite alone in the world I do believe’
- emphasises his inflicted isolation
- all due to affects of greed
‘I would like to say a word to my clerk just now’
- feels remorse
- start of transformation
‘the happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune’
- perhaps dickens is saying happiness could be the real measure of wealth
- scrooge has not followed fezziwigs example of being a good boss
‘a solitary child, neglected by his friends is left here still’
- origins of scrooges loneliness
- helps the reader feel compassion and understanding towards scrooge
- shapes his adult personality
- profound impact isolation on scrooges development
- ‘still’ shows permanence of loneliness
- overlooked
‘another idol has displaced me’
‘a golden one’
- corrupting influence of greed
- sin to not worship idols
‘why do you delight to torture me’
- juxtaposition of ‘delight’ and ‘torture’
- scrooge wants to forget about past
‘comfortable, rich, fat, jovial voice’
- opposite of all of scrooges descriptions
- themes of abundance and joy
