happiness S2

• " Home, little Fan?"

  • Scrooge's sister/ Fred's mum
  • Coming to take Scrooge back home for Christmas
  • Descriptions of characters are similar - little fan darting, clapping.
• "In came,..."

  • Anaphora - served a vast fraction of the community
  • Parallelism - never-ending
  • Emphasises the amount of people that attended Fezziwig's party.
• "In came the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker..."

  • Juxtaposition of the different people in the party. - people of higher and lower wealth came aswell.
  • This suggest that Fezziwig is blind to the class divide- he welcomes everyone.
  • Scrooge doesn't respect the poor.
  • Fezziwig is a FOIL CHARACTER of Scrooge.
• "Away they all went."

  • Volta (turning point) - people are now leaving collectively.
  • Brought people together - sense of unison -and they all leave together
  • Christmas spirit is able to unite everyone.
• "He had the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil."

  • Juxtaposing words near each other - employers are powerful and if they use their power in a good way, they can improve their worker's jobs - however, Scrooge only makes his worker's jobs worse.
  • gives employers a sense of power.
• "The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."

  • simile
  • Character development - Scrooge realises that making people happy is worth a lot more than money.
  • Fezziwig makes people very happy.