a christmas carol 🤓

• "The cold within him froze his old features..." - Marley's Ghost
• "A small matter but to Scrooge very terrible" - Marley's Ghost
• "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
• "I wear the chain I forged in life" - Marley's Ghost
• "A solitary child, neglected by his friends." - Scrooge as a boy
• "I wear the chain I forged in life... It links me to my fellow men." - Marley's Ghost
• "No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused." - Marley's Ghost
• "He was always ready with his faulty jokes" - Fred
• "He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world."
• "It is required of every man that the spirit within him be without fraud or cunning."
• "Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.
• leave me! take me back. haunt me no longer!
• I wear the chain I forged in life. Repentance now, and hope then!"
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends, he learned to associate pleasure with evil deeds, and pain with virtue.
• The chains he forged in life were laid upon himself
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends
• The chains he wore were links of selfishness, which gave him power with men and women alike.
• I'll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family.'”Scrooge offers to help Bob Cratchit. (Stave 5)
• Scrooge was better than his word


  How Scrooge has changed at the end
• “God bless Us, Every One!”Tiny Tim speaks – final words of the story


  joy - jovility
• Morality


  The principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour
• 'A Christmas Carol' is a didactic novel with many moral messages
• Dickens was incredibly critical of the laws created about the poor, in fact he had lost all hope in democracy
• Poor Law 1834


  Created union workhouses which were cruel unforgiving places which Dickens believed to be completely unethical
• Morality and philanthropy


  Were linked in the Victorian era and many believed that it was a moral duty to contribute to charity, especially as Christians
• Some believed that charity actually made poverty worse
• Philanthropy


  Dickens shows that it does not have to be grand wealthy displays, instead it's about a change in behaviour and being a good person
• Scrooge's change


  • "I am about to raise your salary"
  • Filled with the Christmas Spirit and becomes a "good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man"
• Many pieces of literature in the Victorian era had a dual nature; their purpose was to entertain but also to inform readers or act as a tool for social conformity
• Many of the moral ideologies of the era were heavily influenced by the Bible and Christian doctrines
• Scrooge is described as "covetous old sinner"


  Covetousness is a sin and Exodus 20:17 mentions it as one of the ten commandments
• Dickens did not believe that Christianity and salvation was the only way to change, he believed change was possible through a person's own self awareness
• The Ghost of Christmas Present: '"There are some upon this earth of yours [...] who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived."'
• Marley's Ghost


  Dickens shows the eternal consequences of living an immoral life, grounded in Christian doctrine. Marley's Ghost has been trapped in purgatory and is "doomed to wander the earth"
• The "phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went" suggests the depth of their suffering
• The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come shows Scrooge the effects of his death - people feel relief and joy because of it
• Scrooge's wicked and cruel behaviour in life


  Has left the same legacy after his death, leading to others like the three thieves to mimic that same behaviour
• Through this, Dickens tries to exhibit to the audience the consequences of bad behaviour and shows the reader how immorality bleeds immorality
• scrooges change illustrates him as a philanthropist - feeling remorse and regret giving back to the poor through the cratchits
• you can’t run away from who you are but instead run toward who you want to be