Isolation

• Isolation permeates the novella fuelling Scrooge's apathy. Dickens utilises the didactic novel and the construct of isolation to critique selfishness highlighting the importance of human connection
• Scrooge's isolation fuels his avarice and cruelty
• Solitary as an oyster
• little cell
• What reason have you to be merry? Your poor enough
• If they had rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
• lonely boy
• Scrooge isolates himself from human connection and love causing his emotional suppression
• Father is much kinder than he used to be
• Shaking hands with every person individually
• Another idol has displaced me
• I was a boy
• Dickens uses the concept that social isolation fuels suffering to warn against Malthusian views of seperating society
• drew round the heart in a circle
• Tell me if Tiny Tim will live
• Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself always
• I pity him
• They are Man's
• Isolation is used as a vessel to warn against insignificance and anguish
• Old scratch
• If such a miracle has happened
• lighted cheerfully juxtp overun by grass and weeds
• Oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone
• Scrooge's redemption is only possible when he breaks free from his isolation and recognises the importance of human connection
• glowing with his good intentions
• light as a feather
• Taking the old gentleman by both his hands
• He was at home in 5 minutes
• To tiny tim he was a second father