A Christmas Carol (Literature Paper 1)

• Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
• Solitary as an oyster
• "Bah!" said Scrooge "Humbug."
• “Warning all human sympathy to keep its distance”
• A squeezing, wretching, grasping, scraping, clutching covetous old sinner
• ”I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate” - Marley’s Ghost
• Dicken‘s father Was sent to a debtors prison
• What Beliefs does the Character Scrooge have?

  malthusian beliefs
• Dickens writes this novella to criticise the Victorian society and the way it treats the poor
• Marleys chains are made up of cash boxes, padlocks and money bags
• The ghost of Jacob Marley represents the consequences of greed and selfishness
• Scrooges first name is Ebenezer which means “stone of help”. This shows how he has become hardened by his life experiences.
• “If they would rather die than work, then they must die.”- Scrooge
• The ghost of Jacob Marley was created from Dickens own experience with his fathers imprisonment due to debts
• “I wear the chain I forged in life” - Marley
• Scrooge values business, wealth and solitude
• Scrooge is a caricature made by Dickens to represent the greedy and corrupt capitalists during the victorian era
• Bob Cratchit represents the working class who were exploited by the upper classes like Scrooge
• The three ghosts that visit Scrooge represent memory, charity and death
• Bob Cratchit symbolises the working class and the poor.
• Marleys chains are a metaphor for his past actions
• Dickens uses Fezziwig to represent communal values
• Fezziwig is a foil character to Scrooge