Scrooge

• ”If they rather die, they better do it and decrease the surplus population”

  1. Scrooge has no sympathy for the poor
  2. Declarative - thinks the poor are a waste of space and take up the population
  3. Verb - decrease - wants to get rid of the poor because thinks there are too many
  4. Links to Malthus who thought the human population was growing to fast and won’t be enough food for everyone
  5. Wants to raise awareness about this
• Described as “Solitary as an oyster“

  1. Scrooge isn’t a nice person
  2. Simile as being compared to something found in the deep darks of the ocean
  3. Noun “oyster” - hard on the outside but when opened up is a precious pearl
  4. Foreshadowing the change of scrooge throughout the play
  5. Audience feels there could be some good in scrooge
• “I can’t afford to make idol people merry”

  1. Scrooge has no sympathy for the working class
  2. Declarative - Doesn’t want to make others happy even if he could
  3. Adjective idol - doesnt want to give free money to people who sit around all day being lazy
  4. Can afford it but chooses not to
  5. Audience will hate scrooge for this
• ” No i should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now”

  1. Scrooges transformation at end of play
  2. Declarative - shows he is being remorseful and shows the change that has been made
  3. Clerk - bob cratchit - knows how to treat employees now
  4. Audience feeling will have changed because of his actions
• "Hard and sharp as flint"

  1. Hard - Lacks empathy and warmth
  2. Flint - pain and no mercy towards others
  3. Simile - Flint makes fire - highlight scrooges change - warmth within
• "solitary child neglected by his friends"

  1. Links to oyster quote - except its not his choice that he's alone
  2. Juxtaposition - neglected - readers empathy at this point
• "Tell me if Tiny Tim will live"

  1. Imperative - Scrooge cares about the boy
  2. Contrast quote about surplus population
  3. Attitude changing towards poor
• "I am as light as a feather"

  1. Freed of the chains of his earlier life
  2. Feathers - freedom and flight - closer to heaven
• "I am as happy as an angel"

  1. Angel - good things
  2. Scrooge has become a better person
• Transformation quote

  “Solitary as an oyster”
• Transformation quote

  “Hard and sharp as flint”
• Transformation quote

  “Are there no prisons?”
• “Better die and decrease the surplus population”
• Transformation quote

  “Any idiot who goes around with merry christmas on his lips … buried with a stake of holly through his heart”
• Transformation quote

  “He has the power to render us happy or sad to make our work light or burdensome”
• Transformation quote

  “Why to a poor one most?”
• Transformation quote

  “I will honour christmas in my heart”
• Charity + Poverty quote

  “Are there no prisons”
• Charity + Poverty quote

  “Decrease the surplus population”
• Charity + Poverty quote

  “I can’t afford to make idol people merry”
• Charity + Poverty quote

  “Why to a poor one most”
• Charity + Poverty quote

  “Assist your struggling family”
• “Poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every 25th of December”
• “I am about to raise you salary”

  • Redemption through generosity
  • Exclamatory - willingness to give
  • “raise” lift B.C spiritually and economically