The ghosts / the supernatural quotes only

• ‘I wear the chains I forged in life’
• ‘of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers’
• ‘mankind was my business’
• ‘Ask me who I was’
• ‘like a child’
• ‘tunic of purest white’
• ‘from the crown of it’s head there sprung a clear jet of light’
• ‘it fluctuated in distinctness’
• ‘and he sobbed’
• ‘he could not hide the light’
• ‘turkey, geese, game, poultry’
• ‘come in! come in and know me better man!’
• ‘tell me if Tiny Tim will live’
• ’if he be like to die he had better do it and decrease the surplus population’
• ‘look, look down here’
• ‘Ignorance and want’
• ‘phantom, slowly, gravely, silently approached‘
• ‘behold what I shall be, in days to come’
• ‘I am prepared to bare you company and do it with a thankful heart’
• ‘it shrunk, collapsed and dwindled down’
• In ‘a Christmas carol’ Dickens uses the supernatural to present to the reader Scrooge’s transformation from a greedy, capitalist businessman to a kindhearted philanthropist. This transformation reflects Dicken’s views of the Victorian society and the importance of generosity and kindness to the vulnerable poor.