Scrooge

• Transformed, he changes into a better person
• Superior “Every idiot who goes about with Merry christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding.”
• Shows redemption because he changes
• fearing of the ghost of CYTC
• Uncharitable - “I can’t afford to make idle people merry” and “Better make it quick and decrease the surplus population”
• desperate - “Tell me i may sponge away the writing on this stone”
• “I will honour christmas in my heart” - desperate
• Cold hearted “External heat and cold had little influence on scrooge”
• “She was a good woman, but he was a man of business”
• “Another idol has displaced me… a golden one” - belle says this to scrooge when she is calling off the engagement because scrooge is blinded by money and that’s all he cares about
• “Are there no prisons, are there no workhouses?” - reflects his cold hearted view towards the poor and how he believes the poor should take care of themselves
• Values money over love and family and friendship
• “I am not the man i was” - reflects on Scrooges redemption after he was visited by the spirits
• “It’s not my business” he is ignorant towards the poor and again suggesting the poor should take care of themselves
• “I’ll raise your salary” - Scrooge says this to Bob Cratchit
• “The spirits of the three shall strive within me“ This reflects scrooges acceptance in the lessons he learnt that night
• when scrooge wakes up on christmas he says “i’m as happy as an angel, im as merry as a schoolboy, im as giddy as a drunken man” - shows he’s transformed
• scrooge is uncharitable - “i can’t afford to make idle people merry”
• redeemed and transformed- “i will honour christmas in my heart“- he says pleading
• scrooge is described as “solitary as an oyster”, shows he is lonely, antisocial and introverted
• “solitary as an oyster”- oysters often have a pearl hiding inside of them, could suggest scrooge has more to him than what’s showing, oysters are often found alone in solitude at the bottom of the ocean, this quote suggests scrooge is a lonely man
• “are there no prisons, are there no workhouses?”- rhetorical question suggests sarcasm and scrooge is asking why the poor should not be continually exploited
• “a lonely boy was sat reading near a feeble fire”- about young scrooge
• “tell me i may sponge away the writing on this stone“- said to GOCYTC, expressing a desire to change his fate and the ‘writing on this stone’ symbolises the permanence of his past mistakes
• “they had better do it and decrease the surplus population“- about the poor, dehumanising them and labelling them as ‘surplus population’
• “no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him” describing scrooge as a cold hearted man who is unaffected by love (warmth£
• scrooge mocks those who celebrate christmas
• “i’m as light as a feather!”- scrooge says this when he wakes up on Christmas day
• “external heat and cold had little influence on scrooge”- cold hearted
• “i’m about to promote your salary”- shows scrooge is changed, he raises bobs salary
• scrooge is redeemed and transformed
• scrooge gives a turkey to the cratchits
• scrooge donates to charity in stave 5
• when belle leaves him, she says “i fear another idol has displaced me, a golden one”
• scrooge fears GOCYTC
• scrooge is gruff and selfish
• scrooge becomes a friend of the cratchits, becomes a father figure of tiny Tim
• “Bah, humbug”, ‘humbug’ implies deception or nonsense suggesting that scrooge believes the happiness and cheer or christmas is insincere or he sees it as foolish , scrooge says this when rejecting a any form of warmth and love from those around him
• “every idiot who goes about with merry christmas on their tongues should be boiled in their own pudding!” - scrooge believes he is superior and better than those who celebrate christmas and scrooge believes christmas is just foolish nonsense