ACC Quotes

• Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner


  Seven words listed to describe him, seven deadly sins, especially avarice, exclaritives, Oh!, could dickens be trying to influence a religious slap back of inertia out of the readers to control and hint the future demise of afterlife related with the columns of which capitalism stands on. His avarice and miserly archetypal character is captured in context of his ignorance of the "idle poor", such an opinionated character may be perhaps influencing
• Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner PT 2


  to a reader of their own opinions in challenge or fund. Overall dickens political base of encouraging opinionated thought beside passive reading lays a foundation for him to argue later in juxtaposition and circumstance
• “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?” - the spirit


  The repetance of his own empathy lacking opinion echoes shamefully in the mirrors of scrooges mind, as he shys back in disgust at the empathic realisation of his own harshness, perhaps his own realisation is the impactful message that dickens wants to reflect on the mirrors of the reader's minds too. By having them reflect on their own opinionated basis created at the exposition, the beautiful reminder of argument in empathy is thought through. Yet another lexical implication embedded of political input voiced through character.
• REDEMPTION


  the theme of redemption in not only scrooge but his surroundings is the implication that even the most impudent members of upper class society in victorian england, in their diminishing numbers, hold the capability for the greatest impact in and amongst their counterparts. That not only does it become a greater and freeing place for both parties, a healing idyllic paradise diminishing the social division. The simile "hard and sharp as flint" the staid noun of "flint" could represent his revolutionary ideals, when paired with steel, (social class awareness) can start fires
• REDEMPTION PT 2


  This is fondered by the nietzchean theory that through spiritual enlightenment when paired with the "steel" of the ghosts, he is yet to discover his inner benevolance. Towards the end he is presented as " as light as a feather"
• Furthermore


  "light as a feather"

  the noun feather has contrasting connotations to the flint, a feare is shed due to not needing it or destruction, here suggesting scrooges formal immoral self. nietzche would argue reincarnation. The lesson of redemption.
• If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." scrooge hung his head