A Christmas Carol

• Name the 10 themes of ACC:

  • Family and Community
  • Isolation
  • Materialism and Wealth
  • Poverty and Class Divide
  • Regret
  • Religion
  • Supernatural
  • Transformation/Change
• Context for ACC:

  • Dickens was middle-class and experienced poverty first-hand
  • journalism made him more socially aware
  • written around the end of the Industrial Revolution (1843)
  • criticizes the New Poor Law and ignorance of the rich
  • encourages charity and better education (solution to poverty)
  • Victorian audience was extremely religious (Christianity)
• Name 6 quotes for Scrooge:

  • solitary as an oyster
  • if they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
  • been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life
  • teach me, let me profit by it
  • last prayer to have his fate reversed
  • I am as merry as a school boy


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Isolation
  • Poverty and Class Divide
  • Isolation/Family/Regret
  • Regret/Change
  • Regret/Religion/Change
  • Change/Community
• Name 6 quotes for The Ghost of Christmas Past:

  • not so like a child as like an old man
  • tunic of purest white
  • branch of fresh green holly
  • a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible
  • your reclamation then
  • do not blame me


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Supernatural
  • Religion
  • Religion
  • Supernatural/Religion
  • Religion
  • Religion
• Name 6 quotes for The Ghost of Christmas Present:

  • antique scabbard; but no sword
  • sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch
  • charge their doings on themselves, not us
  • they are Man's
  • slander those who tell it
  • are there no prisons?


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Religion
  • Poverty/Class Divide/Community/Religion
  • Religion
  • Religion/Supernatural
  • Religion/Community
  • Regret/Supernatural/Change
• Name 6 quotes for The Ghost of Christmas Future:

  • slowly, gravely, silently approached
  • neither spoke or moved
  • pointed onwards
  • like a wing
  • did not stay for anything
  • the kind hand trembled


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Supernatural
  • Isolation/Supernatural
  • Religion/Supernatural
  • Religion/Supernatural
  • Regret/Isolation
  • Regret/Religion/Change
• Name 6 quotes for Marley:

  • it is required of every man
  • condemned to do so after death
  • I wear the chain I forged in life
  • blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode?
  • none were free
  • sought to interfere ... lost the power forever


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Community/Religion
  • Religion/Supernatural
  • Regret/Religion
  • Class Divide/Regret/Religion
  • Regret/Religion
  • Isolation/Regret
• Name 6 quotes for Bob Cratchit:

  • he tried to warm himself at the candle
  • he regarded it as the greatest success achieved
  • dreaded that he might be taken from him
  • I'll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast
  • very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly
  • we shall not quarrel easily ... forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Poverty/Class Divide
  • Family
  • Family
  • Community
  • Family
  • Family
• Name 6 quotes for Tiny Tim:

  • as good as gold
  • who made lame beggars walk and blind men see
  • withered little hand
  • spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God
  • my little little child
  • God bless us, everyone


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Family
  • Religion
  • Poverty/Class Divide
  • Religion
  • Family
  • Religion/Community
• Name 3 quotes for Minor Characters (1):

  • always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered - Fan
  • another idol has displaced me ... a golden one - Belle
  • basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion - Young Cratchits


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Family/Regret
  • Regret/Isolation/Wealth/Materialism
  • Poverty
• Name 3 quotes for Minor Characters (2):

  • I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried - Fred
  • all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread - Ignorance and Want
  • he frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead! - the woman


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Family/Community
  • Supernatural/Poverty
  • Materialism/Wealth/Isolation