A Christmas carol quotes

• ’Solitary as an oyster’ - Macbeth


  Self contained and isolate, creature like, simile, has a hard impenetrable exterior but the pearl inside foreshadows hope for scrooges redemption

  Stave 1
• ‘Are there no prisons?’ -Scrooge


  Heartless and believes they deserve to suffer, shows the treatment and criminalisation of the poor, symptomatic within society that Dickens aims to criticise
• ‘Father is so much kinder than he used to be’ -Fan, Scrooge’s sister 


  Foreshadows his ability to change just as his father has
• ‘They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolffish’ -stave 3

  Describing ignorance and want, undesirable qualities on society, monstrous, animalistic, lack of innocence of the children due to unpleasant world
• “If they’d rather die then they better do it and decrease the surplus population”

  He doesn’t care about them, he believes they should take their own responsibility
• “Scrooges fire was so small but the clerks fire was looked like it only had one coal”

  He doesn’t waste money on the important things. Selfish, cruel, exploits Bob
• “I give you Scrooge the founder of the feast”

  Even though they dislike scrooge they honour him bc of the Xmas spirit