Quotes

• Scrooge stave 1

  "A squeezing wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner"

  • Means scrooge is mean, envious of others and greedy
  • Context-victorian concepts of charity and philanthropy
  • List suggesting continously activity
• scrooge stave 1

  "solitary as an oyster"

  • scrooge is mean envious of others and greedy
  • simile
  • context-oyster were food of poor link with ideas of social responsibility
• scrooge stave 1

  "heat and cold had little influence on scrooge"

  • he never shows any emotion or reaction to events
  • metaphor
  • context-ideas of social responsibility
• scrooge to fred stave 1

  "bah said Scrooge. humbug"

  • considers Christmas to be a fraud and a waste of time and money
  • exclamation, motive
  • context-social responsibilty and use of humor
• scrooge to charity workers stave 1

  "theyd better do it and decrease the surplus population"

  • scrooge echos the malthusian belief that population will always out way food
  • emotive language and dialoge
  • context-notions of "deserving" and "underserving" poor, social responsibility
• scrooge to charity workers stave 1

  "are there no prisons are there no workhouses?"

  • scrooge thinks these are the best places for the poor
  • context-notions of deserving and nondeserving
  • emotive language and repetition
• scrooge stave 1

  "scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern"

  • he is presented as lonely and sad
  • emotive language
  • context-social responsibilty and contrasts to the cratchits
• marleys ghost stave 1

  "i made it link by link yard by yard"

  • marley admits full responsibility for his sins
  • context-social responsibility,sins and religon
  • metaphor and repetiton
• Marley's ghost stave 1

  "There more of gravy than of grave about you"

  • scrooge thinks the apparition is purely imaginary due to indigestion
  • context-disbelief in spirits supernatural
  • play on words and pun
• description of the ghost of christmas past stave 2

  "like a child yet...like an old man"

  • ghost has characteristics of youth and age
  • context-supernatural
  • oxymoron and paradox
• description of the ghost of christmas past stave 2

  "strong hand" "mildly" "gentle"

  • the ghost is powerful, but also soft, emotional
  • oxymoron, paradox
  • context-contrasts in society, supernatural
• fezziwigs warehouse stave 2

  "bright as a ballroom"

  • workhouse is warm and cozy contrasts scrooges place of work
  • social responsibility
  • context-social responsibility
• belle stave 2

  "another idol has displaced me"

  • religous refrence
  • scrooge has become obsessed with greed and wealth, belle is no longer part of his family
  • context-mortality and religion
• description of ghost of christmas present stave 2

  "a jolly giant"

  • he is huge and exuberant
  • aliteration
  • context-supernatural, personification of christmas
• description of ghost of christmas present stave 3

  ""genial" "sparkling" "cheery"

  • the ghost is merry and happy
  • emotive language and adjectives
  • context-personification of festive period
• mrs cratchit and daughter stave 3

  "brave in ribbons"

  • emotive language
  • context-spirit of christmas poverty
  • eventhough they have little money still make an effort
• ignorance and want stave 3

  "yellow,meagre,lagged,scowling"

  • symbolising the reality of many working class children
  • context-poverty in victorian england
  • allegory symbolism and emotive language
• christmas yet to come stave 4

  "it seemed to scatter gloom and misery"

  • the ghost is sinister and threatening
  • emotive aliteration
  • context-supernatural personification of death
• ghost of christmas yet to come stave 4

  "silent","ghostly","spectral"

  • ghost doesnt speak; it is frightening and sinister
  • emotive aliteration
  • context-supernatural personification of death
• scrooges body stave 4

  "unwatched, unwept , uncared for"

  • scrooge sees the consequences of living his lonely and isolated life
  • emotive language and lists
  • context- mortality and family