themes

• solitary as an oyster - isolation
• Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? - poverty
• small pudding ... large family - poverty and family
• i wear the chain i forged in life - regret
• another idol has displaced me ... a golden one - greed
• I will live in the past, present and future - redemption
• you fear the world too much - fear
• there is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty - fear
• who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always - isolation
• his melancholy dinner in his melancholy tavern - isolation
• read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name - isolation
• should be boiled with his own pudding - christmas
• as giddy as a drunken man - christmas
• upon the barren waste, was singing a Christmas song - christmas
• ragged, scowling, wolfish - poverty
• if they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population - greed
• where graceful youth should have filled their features out ... had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds - poverty
• They are Man's - poverty
• we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim doing it - memory
• i will not shut out the lessons that they teach - memory and redemption
• he was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air - memory
• which i might have derived good, by which i have not profited - gratitude
• the dealings of my trade were but a drop in the comprehensive ocean of my business - gratitude
• But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone - isolation
• The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it costs a fortune - charity (talking abt Fezziwig)
• i will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year round - redemption
• He shan’t know who sends it. It’s twice the size of Tiny Tim - charity and redemption
• I can't afford to make idle people merry - greed
• I hope to live to be another man than what i was - redemption
• i should like to have given him something - charity and redemption
• a solitary child neglected by his friends - isolation
• external heat and cold had little effect on Scrooge - isolation
• no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused - regret
• mankind should have been my business - regret
• No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse - regret