quotes

• Dickens describes him as a "solitary child, neglected by his friends."


  adjective 'solitary' links back to the novella, except that child scrooge was actually alone and it was not his choicejuxtaposition of 'neglected' with 'friends' develops the readers empathy towards his characterfurther more when he sobs the reader understands that empathy and compassion have the power to elicit an emotional responce from scrooge---->signifies transformation
• "Boy is ignorance. Girl is want."

  • Metaphor- Dickens uses children to reflect the most vulnerable in society, symbol of poor working class, children are neglected + ignored, young girls need more but are getting nothing
  • Short sentences for emphasis, sound like facts
  • Ignorant=oblivious, no clue to the suffering people are going through OR know but don't care, capitalism
  • Dickens is trying to tell us that we cna't ignore the suffering because it makes us all guilty.
  • Dickens also speaks ffrom experience as he was sent to work at age 12
• "Boy is ignorance. Girl is want"

  • Want= they need money, food, education,
  •  children could also symbolise the cycle, how they will grow up and society won't change and have kids who will be brought up in poverty, result of mankind
  • Boy=ignorance girl=want because strong patriarchal society so when it came to change + reformation men were capable as they got education go in the workforce & chance to change society.where as the women would stay at home, they can want more but they aren't getting anything. The 2 exist because cvapitalism + rich don't care
  • Problems in society, need for redemption
• "Solitary as an oyster"

  • Adjective 'solitary'-alone- eg solitary confinement, forced loneliness not voluntary
  • Similie 'oyster'- symbol for capitalism and greed ,within there's a pearl foreshadowing change is possible, however scrooge is encapsulated which is why ghosts come and crack the shell to reveal him as a beautiful, soft man
  • dickens does this to mnake people aware of the dangers of following your desires, dangers of freud:id
  • USED FOR: Scrooge, supernatural, redemption, impact on society on scrooge-like a prisoner, free and poweful because of money but trapped , importance of family
• "I will not shut out the lesswons that they teach!"

  • 'i'-zooms in, first person pronoun, full accountability, hold himself accountable like the ghosts did
  • impreative/command, he will hold himself responsible the way the spirits did. Signals huge change, power of supernatural
  • redemption
  • 'shut out'-link back oyster, no longer shut/locked/covered/stuck , the oyster is open, he is open says it with conviction/certainty/clear
  • Dicken's message=anyone can change encouraging readers
• "If the course be depareted the ends will change"

  • foreshadowing
  • ''course'-metaphor for life and actions, the course/journey is not straight, goes up and down
  • ghosts showed him what his faith/destiny would be, terrible/disasterous ending, if he doesn't change and carries on this course, they helped him
  • quote foreshadows the rest of his life
  • 'departed'-verb he needs to depart/make a change in his habits
  • Dickens message=change is available for all of us, you have to leave things behind and change for the better
  • USE FOR:power of supernatural, scrooge's change
• "The cold within him froze his old features"

  • cold'-symbolism of the epitomized damage of a capitalist society has done to him, prior to scrooge's changing he was a dead man walking, no life, no light, no passion
  • 'froze his old features'- personification, angry, unsociable nature, negativity,evil , nasty, he is so cold hearted that it shows on his face
  • peak victim of capitalist patriarchal society--->the more money + power=more masculine
  • forshadows his future-he will die
  • context-danger of ID -instinictive part of our brain responsible for urges + desires
  • USE FOR: Redemption, society,
• "he bacame as good a friend, as good as a master, and as good as a man"

  • Rule of 3, roles is society, product of change + spirits
  • Emphasis on being 'good' , importance of a second chance + redemption
  • 'became'-changed, process , build up,
  • first 'friend'- learnt how to maintain relationships, warm, stop being isolated
  • second 'master'- destroyed shackles of capitalism treats workers fairly, better boss
  • third 'man'-impact whole personality, accumilates every part of life, Scrooge changed his life, never too late to change but it's a slow process
• "Another idol has displaced me"

  • GCP reveals a conversation between Scrooge + ex-girlfriend
  • 'Another'-change has taken place, this is reinforced by the verb displaced, implies she is and wants to be his only idol-controversial, goes against patriarchy, upset she's been displaced
  • 'idol'-->symbol of worship, wants absolute submission of Scrooge, goes against gender roles, gender battles in society
  • he loves money more than her, scrooge is a slave to his desires
  • This is a catalyst for the beggining of the downfall, beggining of the end, money replaced every relationship he had
• "Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot, Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour, Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple sauce."

  • Rule of 3
  • Juxtaposition with scrooge
  • Cratchits don't have a lot of material value, food but they have love, unity, work together, theydon't need money /status to be happy, they work together and are greateful for the little

  they have

  • 'incredible vigour'-motivated, hard working, driven, wants to help contrasts capilist society