Marley quote

• Marley: ''I wear the chain I forged in life''
• Marley's purpose

  To warn Scrooge to change his way of life while he can, as Marley is forced to travel the world in his death, tortured by remorse for his behaviour in life
• Marley's chain

  • Weighs him down to highlight how he will never be free in the afterlife because of the appalling way he treated others whilst alive
  • Filled with objects associated with business to indicate the severity of his Earthly errors
• Scrooge and Marley

  Serve as a microcosm for the rich population in Victorian England, who thought the poor were idle and begrudged that their taxes paid for institutions such as the workhouse to help the poor
• It is only in his death that Marley realises the error of his ways