A Christmas Carol Quotes 🎄

• Scrooge was his sole executor , his sole administrator , his sole assign , his sole residuary legatee , his sole freind
• 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel'
• 'A merry christmas to everybody! a happy new year to all the world!'
• 'God bless us everyone!'
• 'The spirits of all three shall strive within me.'
• Mankind was my business
• 'I wear the chain I forged in life'
• 'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year'
• His wealth is of no use to him he do no good with it
• The boy is ignorance the girl is want
• If they would rather die they better do it and decrease the surplus population
• Scrooge was better than his word
• Darkness is cheap
• The cold within him froze his old features
• "I am sorry for him" fred
• 10% of people admitted to workhouses would die
• Dickens crafts an allegorical novella with a didactic purpose aiming to convey a message about the virulent consequences of frugality and greed in society. He criticise the upper class for their apathy towards the poor.
• Dickens uses the ghosts as vehicles for conveying his condemnation of the ignorance and callousness prevelant amongst the materialistic upper class.The ghosts are dickens mouthpiece delivering a powerful message advocating for compassion and societal reform.
• The syntax 'Mankind was my buisness' shows the hierachal order of values people should adopt economical language critiques the society's obsession with
• The ghost aims to catalyse a regression within scrooge and prompt a return to his former compassionate self by showing him his childhood
• The ghost repeats scrooge quote to emphasis his callous neglect and ignorance towards the destitute. Dickens is using scrooge to criticise the malthusian views the aristocratic upper class held
• "Shrouded in a deep black garment" symbolises grim reaper and death it creates a ambience of forbidding and finality a reminded of the consequences of scrooges actions
• Ghost of christmas ytc has a ominous ambience unlike the other two ghosts which represents light
• "Clerk" Lack of identity dehumanisation and marginalisation of the poor during victoriana era the deliberate removal of the name reflects how the poor were stripped of their identity and individuality
• Bob crachit epitomises the power of true wealth