Misc Quotes

• 'solitary child, neglected by his friend'


  Ghost of Christmas Past highlights the loneliness and isolation experienced by those who are poor or marginalised

  Aided Scrooge's Malthusian ideologies as he has experience with being on the receiving end

  Evidently doesn't forgive the people who neglected him going against the Christian values
• 'the cold within him froze his old features'


  Dickens uses personification to describe how Scrooge's cruel nature affects his physical appearance

  Shows Scrooge's way of life to be like a disease
• ’From the crown of its head there sprang a bright clear jet of light’ - stave 2


  Light represents the Ghost's knowledge and symbolises how it tries to enlighten Scrooge
• 'portly gentlemen'


  Quote referencing the charity workers