Scrooge

• "the cold within him froze is old features" (stave 1)

  • Shows how Scrooge is ostracised from society
  • His internal apathy and detachment is so omnipotent it alters his physical appearance
• "squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner" (stave 1)

  • emblem of Victorian upper class
  • 7 adjectives = 7 deadly sins
  • rich are the real sinners not the poor who were seen as lazy
  • conveys Dicken's message right from the start
  • Archetypal villain in the context of a poor society
• "Are there no prisons?... And the union workhouses?" (stave 1)

  • Malthusian views
  • Dehumanises the poor
  • Emblem of the Victorian upper class society
• "piercing, searching, biting cold" (stave 1)

  • personification
  • shows the power of nature may be alluring to the forthcoming supernatural to come
  • impact of the setting
• "As solitary as an oyster" (stave 1)

  • simile
  • shows his isolation and how he's ostracised from society
  • "oyster"- hard shell inside reflects Scrooge
  • pearl inside the oyster has high material value which represents how greed and money is engraved inside Scrooge's heart
  • could also mean that there is a "pearl" inside Scrooge which means that there is hidden good in his heart