Stave 1

• 'Marley was dead:to begin with' - about Marley

  Themes: supernatural, redemption, mortality, lack of compassion, coldness
• 'old Marley was as dead as a doornail' - about Marley

  Themes: supernatural, death and the afterlife
• 'scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole.mourner' - about Marley

  Themes: friendship, isolation/loneliness, consequence of selfishness and greed
• 'external heat and cold had little influence on scrooge' - Scrooge themes: wealth, redemption, lack of empathy, emotional detachment
• ' warning all human sympathy to keep it's distance' - about scrooge

  Themes: isolation, empathy, compassion, friendship
• 'tight-fisted hand at the grindstone' - Scrooge

  Theme: social responsibility, wealth
• 'solitary as an oyster' -scrooge

  Themes: friendship, wealth, isolation
• 'secret and self-contained' - Scrooge

  Themes: wealth, ioslation, redempton, bottling up emotions
• 'hard and sharp as flint' - Scrooge

  Themes: social responsibility, wealth, importance of empathy, personal growth, redemption
• 'a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner' - Scrooge

  Themes: social responsibility, wealth, time, redemption
• 'he carried his own low temperature always about with him' - about scrooge

  Themes:wealth, time, friendship, lack of warmth
• 'once upon a time - of all the good days in the year, on Christmas eve - old Scrooge sat busy in his counting house' - about scrooge

  Themes; christmas spirit, wealth, self-reflection, redemption, empathy, generosity
• 'it was cold, bleak, biting weather' - about scrooge

  Themes: christmas spirit, need for warmth
• 'bah humbug!' - Scrooge

  Themes: christmas spirit, family, wealth and poverty, compassion
• 'the fog came poring in at every chunk and keyhole' -

  Themes: supernatural, compassion, friendships,
• 'his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters' - about bob crachit

  Themes: friendship, poverty, christmas spirit
• 'he was all in a glow;his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled' -about Fred

  Themes: family, poverty, christmas spirit
• 'what reason have you to be merry?you're poor enough.' - Scrooge

  Themes: family, poverty, social responsibility
• 'what reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough' - Fred

  Themes: social responsibility, wealth, family
• 'are there no prisons?, are there no union workhouses?' - Scrooge

  Themes: poverty and wealth, social responsibility, time
• 'at the ominous word 'liberality'- Scrooge

  Themes: redemption, social responsibility, generosity, importance of being open-hearted, selfless
• 'i don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry' - Scrooge

  Themes; wealth and poverty, social responsibility, christmas spirit
• 'if they would rather die, they better do it and decrease the surplus population' - Scrooge

  Themes: social responsibility, wealth and poverty, time
• 'meanwhile the fig and darkness thickened' -

  Themes: wealth, redemption, time, social responsibility
• 'he tried to say 'humbug' but stopped at the first syllable' - Scrooge

  Themes: self-reflection, change, redemption, compassion, empathy, time
• 'the misery with them all was, clearly , that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever' -

  Themes: redemption, change, social responsibility, self-reflection
• 'mankind was my business' - Marley

  Themes: supernatural, compassion, empathy, soical responsibility, time
• 'no rest, no peace, incessant torture of remorse' - Marley

  Themes: supernatural, redemption, compassion empathy, self-reflection
• 'i wear the chain I forged in life' - Marley

  Themes: time, wealth, social responsibility, redemption, supernatural
• ' I girded it on of my own free will' - Marley

  Themes: social responsibility, time, redemption, supernatural, wealth
• 'or would you know, pursued, the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas eves ago. You have laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous chain!' - Marley

  Themes: christmas spirit, supernatural, social responsibility, redemption, time
• 'how now! , said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever' - Scrooge

  Themes: wealth, time, redemption, change,
• 'there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door' -

  Themes: apparances, poverty and wealth, family and friendship
• 'to say that he was not startled, or that his blood was not conscious of a terrible sensation to which it had been a stranger from infancy, would be untrue' -

  Themes: redemption, self-reflection, time, change,
• 'piercing, searching, biting cold' -

  Themes: lack of christmas spirit, harshness, adversity, time
• 'scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern' - about scrooge

  Themes: friendship, loneliness, wealth