christmas carol good words

• pinnacle of excellence(description if how Victorian Britain was called)


  it means the best. Charles Dicken found this ironic considering that the upper classes of Britain exploited the most vulnerable in society for their own personal gain
• Britain was described as a symbol of progression


  ironic because technology was progressing yet people were miserable
• exacerbated class divide 


  increasing class divide between the working and upper classes
• what were the working conditions described as?

  dangerous and dehumanising conditions this reflects the upper classes intention to exploit the poor
• what did Charles Dicken think the reason for the industrial revolution?


  overzealousness(obsession) with the product or gain of money
• who did Dickens attack in his novella to get his point across?


  Thomas Malthus used politics diatribe in his novella to show that Malthus view were cruel and uses the ghost of present to show abundance
• what is another way the conditions of the working class is described as? another word for horrible 


  belligerent
• stave 1 scrooge is described as selfish. but a better word is


  parsimonious
• stave 1another better word for selfish is 


  miser
• stave 1 scrooge only a villain but a better word is 


  archetypal villain
• stave 1 another word for selfish to describe scrooge is 


  fugal
• stave 1 to describe scrooge is greedy but a better word is


  avaricious
• stave 1 another word to describe scrooge as callous and cold is 


  apathetic
• another word to describe scrooge in stave 1 is lonely but better word is 


  ostracised
• in stave 2 for the first time we see scrooge as showing his emotions


  vulnerable
• what is scrooge like in stave 2 because of the ghost of Christmas past


  exposed emotionally
• what does scrooge try and do the ghost of Christmas past


  he tries to block him out and reject his own redemption
• what causes belle to break up with scrooge 


  his overzealousness and idolisation with money
• what does scrooge try and stop the ghost of Christmas past from revealing

  repression of emotion
• what is the young scrooge described as?


  benevolence
• proleptic death


  dickens is showing the fast forward of scrooge death and that his is what person will think of him as he is dead
• how do people talk about scrooge at the time of his dead?


  economical language as he spoke on about money and cared about when he was alive soon people only see him as greedy for money
• what do people think about scrooge when he is dead

  they dehumanise him as he did them this reinforce that you should treat people well when you are alive.
• what does scrooge become when he dies 


  he becomes exposed as he no longer has money to protect him when he was alive
• how is scrooge treated like after his death?


  he is devalued and neglected as he treated people the same way
• what is the place scrooge will go if he continues to be parsimonious towards people 


  eternal damnation
• what is scrooge's death show in the play


  scrooge's death is allegorical which mean it represent the upper classes death