A Christmas Carol

• Solitary as an oyster

  • Simile
  • scrooge has a hard outer shell
  • but has a pearl of hope in their
• Hard and sharp as a flint

  • At the start of the novella he is sharp and hurts others
  • very dangerous to Be around
• He was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone

  • Holding on to his money
  • very greedy
• His own heart laughed

  • Personification
  • at the end scrooge is joyful
• Founder of the feast

  • Bob cratchit is still grateful and toasts to scrooge at dinner despite their deprivation
• are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

  • Repeated rhetorical questions
  • scrooge does not care about the poor
• My little little child

  • Shows the care and love that the cratchits have towards one another
• I am as light as a feather, im as happy as an angel

  • Repeated simile
  • shows how happy scrooge feels at the end of the novella now that he has transformed
• God bless us everyone

  • despite being poor the cratchits still are more loving than scrooge ever was
• I wear the chains i forged in life

  • Shows scrooge the way he will trun out if he does not change his ways
• If they would rather die then they’d better do it and decrease the surplus population

  • scrooge does not care about the poor
  • believes they should just die
• 1834 poor law


  Introduced the workhouses

  gruelling houses for the lower class

  could work there for food

  scrooge endorses these
• Thomas malthus 


  Economist and scholar

  he had opposite views to dickens

  dickens based scrooge of him

  he basically said decrease the surplus population