a christmas carol

• jacob marley has been dead for 7 years
• the first spirit shows scrooge his past
• scrooges sister is fanny
• belle was the love of scrooges life
• fred is kind, generous and loving
• fred is scrooges nephew
• the third spirit shows scrooge what will happen if he does not change
• "darkness is cheap, and scrooge liked it" - stave 1
• "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" - stave 1
• "the cold within him froze his old features" - teqnique used is conceit which is an extended metaphor to exagerate scrooges cold nature
• themes of a christmas carol - redemption, greed and social class
• "hard and sharp as flint" - flint is covered in impurities
• "i am as light as a feather" - feather is associated with birds that fly showing scrooges feeling of freedom