Christmas carol scrooge

• stave 1 : scrooge is described as "the cold within him froze his old features"


  this shows that his apathy and detachment is so omnipotent that it alters his physical appearance.
• stave 1: scrooge is described as "external heat and cold had little influence."


  this shows that even the element of nature is typically uncontrollable but he has managed to intercept them. this also shows that nature is also scared of him.
• stave 1: scrooge is described as a archetypal villain by "squeezing, grasping, scarping, clutching, covetous old sinner."


  the 7 adjective could reflect the 7 deadly sin or cardinal sins which show that the rich are the real sinners not the helpless poor.
• stave 1: the rhetorical question" are there no prisons?" And union workhouses?" 


  dickens directly contrast the Malthusian view as it doesn't shows that people are considered a number part of the "surplus population"
• stave 1: the weather is used as a motif by "fog and darkness."


  this show the bleakness of scrooge but it could also show his inability to see the pain people he is hurt. this also shows the impact the industrialisation revolution caused so many deaths just like the rich did
• stave 2: the weather is described as "piercing, searching, biting cold."


  the personification show that nature is a aware about the forthcoming supernatural powers to come
• stave 2: the weather is described as "still very foggy and extremely cold."


  the use of pathetic fallacy foreshadows that scrooge will remain ignorant and oblivious. "fog" could show that he is preventing himself from embarking on a pathway of redemption. this is also a refer to the fog in London at the time.
• stave 2: the weather is described as "darkness and the mist had vanished with it."


  show the clarity scrooge has gained and that his diminishing his own mental darkness
• stave 2: the appearance of the ghost of Christmas present "bright clear jet of light."


  this show that the ghost is trying to lighten up scrooge's life though revelation and reminiscence. the use of "clear" should reinforce the clarity of the revelation the ghost aims to bring to scrooge though lighting up his past.
• stave 2: scrooge's action by "he seized the extinguisher cap and by sudden action pressed it down upon its head." 


  shows that he is resisting the chance at redemption "cap" connotes that restriction symbolise of how scrooge desperately wants to restrict the ghost from revealing his painful past. the use of the aggressive verb "pressed" paired with "sudden" show that scrooge is engulfed with the deeply repressed emotion and he acts out irrationally. as of scrooges unsuccessful attempted to stop the ghost's light foreshadows that he will be unsuccessful in stopping his own redemption
• stave 2: scrooge seeing himself as "i was bred in this place. i was a boy here!" 


  the use of exclamatory sentence shows that this id the reader first insight to see scrooge's raw emotion. this could also show by "bred" shows the animalistic connotation could be an illusion for the animalic and barbaric treatment he suffered as child in the 1700s
• stave 2: "A solitary child, neglected by his friends." and "As solitary as a oyster."


  the adjective "solitary" state as a defenceless child show that he wasn't always wanting to be alone and this directly caused this need to be alone and ostracised adult life
• stave 2: "Home little fan?" "returned the boy"


  show the motif of innocence children and this shows scrooge's innocence paired with his sisters death. this would evoke pathos to the readers as the begin to understand scrooge
• stave 2: "in came the six young followers whose heart they broke. in came all the young men and woman employed in the business." and "His heart and soul were in the scene with his former self."


  the repetition of "in came" shows how many people were coming in. scrooge is present as having a warm and welcoming ambience around him as he was watching fezzig's party unfold. the second quote shows a direct contrast with his former cold presentation where he was described as "cold had little influence."
• stave 2: "care and avarice. there was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye."


  avarice is one of the deadly sins. foreshadows the end of scoorge's marriage as his overzealousness with money becomes the most important part of his life.
• stave 2: belle's eyes: "sparkled in the light."


  motif of the light and it shows that scrooge blindly ignored the beauty and vitality of others and the light.
• stave 2: "cheap darkness"


  reflects scrooge's materialises pursuit by seeking comfort in cheap darkness as he cannot face how much vitality and the light he has let out of his life
• stave 3: "Tell me if tiny Tim will live."


  this is a turning point for scrooge as he display genuine emotion of remorse, compassion, and empathy. the use of the imperatives show his change as he uses imperatives with the verb "cried" highlight catharsis emotional release. he is overwhelmed with guilt as he now understand the plight of the poor. scrooge's imperatives are in contrast before as they were impolite as je is now developing benevolence and solicitude.
• stave 3: "if he be like to die, he had better do it and decrease the surplus population."


  the ghost emulates scrooge and Dicken uses his diatribes as a anti-Malthusian tale to show how heartless the view is. scrooge now feels remorse for his actions after learning the physical effects of his blissful ignorance towards the plight of the poor children. Tiny Tim is a microcosmic for he victimisation of the poor children. the social commentor Charles dickens uses this to reflect on their contributions of the social ills and the ignorance of the mistreatment of the poor.
• stave 3: "forgive me if i am not justified in what i ask?"


  shows the biblical undertones of asking for salvation and asking for forgiveness from god. shows that scrooge understand that he need to be cleansed of sins. the sprit could be a incarnation of god.
• stave 3: "scrooge entered timidly and hung his head before the sprit."


  shows that scrooge is submissive to the ghost open and welcoming and it reflect the ides that scrooge has become more moral and spritully awaking as he us now obedient to the ghost's teachings.
• stave 3: "ivy, turkey, geese, game, poultry, brown meat, pigs, sausages, oysters." and "vanished instantly." and "as solitary as a oyster."


  the asyndetic list creates an image of abundance and excessive wealth. scrooge can afford these thing yet doesn't appreciate them. the second quote could allude that theses materialisms luxuries only provide them with ephemeral temporary amount of joy. the oyster in the list could show that the oyster in scrooge's description could show that his concealed moral nature in now coming to the surface.
• stave 3: "yellow" with ignorance and want 


  the colour implies that hey are physically sick and malnourished because of the neglecting society and the obliviousness of individual to the social injustice. connotes that the upper classes believed that poverty was almost contagious illness or sickness.
• stave 3: "scowling" and "wolfish"


  the feral and animatics portrayal of the children of poverty dehumanises the individuals stripping them of their humanity and reducing them to less them animalic state of being. the animalic dehumanising portrayal could be a attack of the rich's dehumaning treatment of the lower classes. the ghost of Christmas present is dickens mouthpiece to the soco-economic poverty that was very present in the Victorian society
• stave 4: "a good man of business." and" "what has he done with his money?" and "cheap funeral" and "marketing corpse" and "to profit us when he was dead."


  this show that people only use economical language to highlight scrooge belief that he only thought about money and this caused his sombre death. money caused him to treat the poor in a dehumanising way however people dehumanise him by only referring to in economical terms.
• stave 4: "bed-curtain"


  Mrs diber is metaphorically used to trivialise being enamoured (obsessed and love) with money. scrooge's focus on materialism was so futile that he was stripped of his simple privacy of having bed curtains
• stave 4: "a bare uncurtained" and on a "ragged sheet"


  this shows that he exposed scrooge is in his death and that is money is failing to protect him in the afterlife like it did when he was alive.
• stave 4: "overrun by grass and weeds"


  this imagery paired with "ragged" show that how scrooge has been devalued and forgotten in death. "overrun" by "grass and weeds" seems to be having more vitality and life then him. this is a mockery of scrooge's materialism driven life as he is now more insignificant then the decaying plants that surround him in the ground.
• stave 4: "a worth place."


  the exclamatory sentence shows his karmic retribution of scrooge's frugal and miserly existence has been justly punished
• stave 4: "past all hope." and " hear me! i am not the man i was."


  this imperatives show scrooge's desperation to be allowed a chance to reform and salvation. the exclamative sentence compounds this desperation as he is pleading and shouting at the ghost.
• stave 4: "i will live in past present and the future. the spirits of all three ghosts shall shrive within me."


  this marks scrooge's realisation and the climax of the allegorical novella. the personal pronoun i reinforce that he is taking personal responsibility. the concept of three could be a biblical allusion of the holy trinity the father the son and the holy spirit. the three ghost are almost incarnation of god himself which reflect the moral and religious change in scrooge
• stave 5: "I will live in the past present and future!"


  this show that in stave 5 he has embarked on a pathway to redemption and salvation as he indoctrinating(fully understands the teaches) the lesson he has learnt
• stave 5: "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy."


  the "I am as light as a feather." is the anthesis to his simile in stave 1 of being" hard as flint as flint." he is now liberated as he feels light from the burden of carrying he once low temperature. The religious simile "happy as an angel" highlights how scrooge feels about his redemption as it has led him back to god and faith. he was before described as "sinner" aboding the deadly sin
• stave 5: "quite a baby." and "as merry as school boy."


  the use of "baby" and "school boy" connotes with innocence and youth, this shows that scrooge is repenting for his sin and he has regained his youthful innocence to see the world in a untainted light. when he calls himself a "baby" as if it the start of his life it signifies that scrooge has been reborn as he has gone from "old sinner" as he has metaphorically become the most innocence form of life (ultimate rebirth)
• stave 5: "no fog, no mist, clear ,jovial sky."


  the weather connotes with scrooge's change. this symbolise that if the stingy upper classes could change the intuitionalism oppression would be eradicated and society could live in harmony.
• stave 5: " I will send it to bob Cratchit." 


  scrooge's social reform, his transmogrification in attitude to the poor resemble how easily social reform would be for society if all individual took accountability for their selfishness. scrooge is microcosm of the upper class to make them reflect on the immense positive impact it would have if everybody adopted a collective social conscience.
• stave 5: "second father"


  scrooge takes on a parenteral role for tiny Tim. Dicken's wanted to tackle what the Disraeli (prime minister in the 1800) called the two nation the rich and the poor. he believed that the social remedy for society is compassion and empathy.