Christmas Carol

• Ghost of Christmas Present

  Ignorance and Want

  Sc attitude towards the poor

  “they are man’s”
• Bob

  Treated horribly but still respects Sc

  “founder of the feast
• Mrs Cratchit

  not well dressed but making the most out of what they have

  “twice turned gown but brace in ribbons”
• Scrooge

  if he doesn’t change, then the weaker people will suffer

  “Oh no kind spirit, say he will be spared
• Tiny Tim

  Reminds us of the + message, Sc saves TT and the cratchits with money but TT saved Sc with suffering

  “God bless us, everyone”
• Scrooge

  he is developing sympathy but for himself

  “Poor boy”
• Ghost christmas past

  Sc childhood is a long past

  “like a child, yet no so like a child as like an old man“
• Scrooge

  he is committed to change

  “i am not the man i was”
• Bob

  shows his polite character, can’t risk asking directly

  “if quite convient sir”
• Scrooge

  he now has a sense of christian goodness

  “i am as light as a feather, as happy as a angel”
• Markets Ghost

  symbol and metaphor for the consequences of selfishness

  “i wear the chain i forged in life” Stave 1
• Scrooge Something special about him, isolation

  “solitary as an oyster”

  Stave 1
• Bob

  sympathy for bob

  stave 4 “my little little child
• Fred

  pities Sc, shows his warm kind soul

  “ i couldn’t be angry if i tried” Stave 3
• Fred

  he can see the joy in things Sc can’t 


  “though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket i’ll say it’s done me good” Sgave 1
• Scrooge

  Poor people arent needed by society

  “better do it and decrease the surplus population“ Stave 1
• Ghost yet to come

  ghost has some serious truths to tell Sc

  “solemn phantom draped and hooded”

  Stave4
• Fred

  forgives and welcomes Sc, mode of how we should be

  “it’s a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off”

  Stave 5