stave one

• Scrooge is disliked by everyone. He is described as as solitary as an oyster.
• Scrooge represents The Selfish members of middle and upper classes in Victorian members of middle and upper classes in Victorian Society he refuses to give to charity and calls the poor people "surplus population"


  "if they had die they better do it and decrease the surplus population"
• Scrooge is uncharitable 


  "are there no workhouses" , " are there no prisons"
• Pathetic fallacy is used to represent Scrooge as cold


  "cold bleak biting weather : foggy withal"

  "cold within him "
• The weather is foggy which mirrors Scrooge's inability to to see how ignorant he is being
• Scrooge is a miser


  "darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it "
• Scrooge experiences unfamiliar emotions which marks the beginning of scrooge's transformation


  when he sees Marley's ghost he has to make jokes to keep "down his terror" even though he is not typically a humorous person
• "oh! but he was as tight-fisted hand at the gravestone "
• "hard and sharp as flint" , "secret and self-contained , as solitary as an oyester"
• dickens uses negative adjectives to describe scrooge such as his "eyes red" , " thin lips blue" and his "grating voice"
• scrooge does not see any reason to be merry other than profit "what reason have you to be merry ? your poor enough"
• scrooge abuses his power over bob Cratchit "let me hear another sound from you and you'll keep your Christmas by loosing your situation
• pathetic fallacy " misanthropic ice", "peircing , searching biting cold"
• "scrooge trembles more and more" upon his encounter with Marley"
• he questions Marleys punishment for his behaviours in life as according to scrooge marley was always "a good man of business"