IGNORANCE + WANT

• "from the foldings of its robe, it brought two children: wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable"

  VERB (foldings)

  • hidden
  • beneath was an undercurrent of ugliness

  ASYNDETIC LIST

  • turn ugly if we maintain ignorance
• "where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked"

  PARADOX

  • angels and devils
  • opposites

  VERB (enthroned)

  • angels
  • raised above

  VERB (lurked)

  • sly and horrible
• "they are mans"

  NOUN (man's)

  • ignorance and want belong to mankind
  • we hide the problems as they arise
• "beware them both... but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow i see that written which is doom"

  IMPERATIVE (beware)

  • warning
  • foreshadows future

  NOUN (doom)

  • end of the world

  SUPERLATIVE (most of all)

  • beware
• "are there no prisons?" said the spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words"


  ECHO

  • repeating scrooges words
  • shows his awful choices
• IGNORANCE AND WANT

  • demonstrates how mankind are greedy and desire to have more than they need