Fred

• Fred is a FOIL to scrooge
• "a time of kind, charitable, giving time."

  • describes the values of Christmas
  • all about being a dutiful Christian
• "why do you like Christmas, your poor?" - scrooge


  "why don't you like Christmas, your rich?" - FRED

  -Juxtaposition /mirrors scrooge's sentences > highlights how foolish scrooge is
• FRED

  NOMENCLATURE (A02)


  Fred=peace

  • HYPOCORISM> (Short name) 'Fred'rick/'fred'rock
  • symbolism>theme of family - scrooge's closest thing to family, his nephew.
• "Merry Christmas uncle! May God save you!"

  • symbolic of warmth> being kind is needed at Christmas
  • foreshadowing scrooge's change/ being saved
  • use of exclamative
• Fred tells us he married for "love", whilst scrooge turned down "love.

  • foreshadows how he lets down Belle.
  • juxtaposition
• when Fred talks about the values of Christmas and being the symbol of family> at this point is a mouthpiece of Dickens views.
• Fred's appearance;

  "he had so heated himself...all in a glow... his face was all ruddy" & "eyes sparkled"

  • MOTIF of heat
  • semantic field of warmth> "ruddy", "glow" & "heated"
  • ADJ> display Fred as an antithesis to scrooge - very cheerful/happy