ACC short quotes

• "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"
• "solitary as an oyster"
• Stave two - 'Another idol has displaced me... a golden one'
• Stave five - raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family."
• Stave five - “Scrooge was better than his word”
• Stave five - "God bless Us, Every One!" - tiny tim
• Scrooge is both a protagonist and antagonist
• "tight fisted hand at the grindstone"
• stave 1 "the cold within him froze his own features" use of a conceit of the cold exacerbate scrooge's internal cold and apathetic nature
• words to describe scrooge? misanthropic
• "no warmth could warm, no wintry weather could chill him" shows hyperbole, his morality can not be placed on a scale foreshadowing his ending
• "Let me see some tenderness connected with a death”
• stave 4 “I am not the man I was"
• in stave 5 scrooge is altrustic
• "i cant afford to make idol people merry" in stave 1
• "even the blind mens dogs appeared to know him" stave 1
• stave 1 "hard and sharp as flint"
• "are there no prisons, are there no workhouses" stave 1
• "as solitary as an oyster: stave 1
• "as merry as a school boy"
• 'as light as a feather"
• "and to tiny time, who did not die, he was a second father" stave 5
• scrooge ostracises himself from society
• "mankind was my business"
• "another idol has displaced me... a golden one"
• tiny tim is a catalyst to scrooge changing, as well as seeing his own death (scrooge's death)
• "ogre" mrs cratchit to show how miserly scrooge is
• scrooge is avaricious
• scrooge is a misthrantppist
• scrooge is an emblem to upper class victorians
• acc is a political diabre
• acc is a traditional morality tale, malthusian novella