A christmas carol (key words) ✩

• misanthropic


  dislike humanity, keep distance from society
• Miser


  Hoards wealth
• Redemption: the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil.
• parsimonious: not willing to spend money or to give or use a lot of something
• isolation


  separation from others; aloneness
• avarice


  extreme greed for wealth or material gain
• philanthropy


  charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
• awakening


  a state of realisation
• empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
• benevolent


  well meaning and kindly
• spectral


  ghostly
• Repentance


  sincere regret or remorse
• altruism


  a concern for others; generosity
• Morality: principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
• pathos

  •pathos: a writers attempt to evoke sympathy

  • disdain: lack of respect

  example: the adjective "solitary" evokespathos rather than disdain
• starker

  •becomes clearer

  example: the extent of scrooge's isolation becomes starker to the reader
• impervious

  •unable to be affected by something

  example: 'No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him' suggesting scrooge as impervious ans unyielding
• inwardly

  •thoroughly

  example: Dickens emphasises scrooge as an outsider to society which is influenced by his inwardly selfish mind-set