ghosts

• 'I wear the chain I forged in life...I made it link by link'


  • symbolism - shows Marley's warning of Scrooges covetousness is interconnected to his anguish
  • Chain is a conciet - symbolizing entrapment
• 'eyes turned down and never raise them to that blessed star'


  • Reference star of Bethlehem, link to christian teachings
  • Shows willfull ignorance
• I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger' 


  • Desperate tone
  • Incantatory like rhythm show torment
  • Repetition show inability to find peace
• 'Like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man'


  • juxtaposition is metaphorical for Scrooge, physically a man, spiritually vunerable
  • Amalgamation of youthfulness shows timelessness of the message of moral growth
  • Aims to catalyse regression in him to return to former compassion
• ' bright clear jet of light' 'purest white' 


  • motif of light, symbolizes he is a beacon of enlightenmemt
  • Celestial image aim to resurface memories and purify him
  • Suggests nobody is beyond redemption