Christmas Carol

• "Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."


  (Scrooge: Stave 1), shows Scrooge's attitude to Christmas, and doesn't want to be happy.
• "Are there no prisons?"

  (Scrooge: Stave 1) Shows scrooge's attitude to the poor and shows context of how the rich viewed the poor in the Victorian times.
• "Bah ... Humbug!"

  (Scrooge: Stave 1) Shows Scrooge's miserly character.
• "I wear the chain I forged in life"


  (The Ghost of Jacob Marley: Stave 1), shows how Marley's wrong choices in life have consequences now, and he carries around these chains.
• "Your lip is trembling." — "And what is that upon your cheek?" "a pimple."

  (The Ghost of Christmas Past: Stave 2) Scrooge is weeping, showing how he is beginning to change, but still isn't comfortable showing his emotions.
• "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."

  (The Ghost of Christmas Past: Stave 2) referring to young Scrooge, shows how Scrooge has been lonely for his whole life.
• "I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now."

  (Scrooge: Stave 2), Shows scrooge beginning to change.
• Another idol has displaced me... a golden one'


  (Belle: Stave 2), shows Scrooge's love and obsession for money start and led to him losing Belle.
• "God bless us every one!"

  (Tiny Tim: Stave 3), Dickins uses the Cratchit family to challenge the fact that all poor people are, "idol" and miserable, as the Cratchit family are poor but they are happy with what they have as they have their family.
• "Mr Scrooge!" — "I'll give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast!"


  (Bob: Stave 3) toasting for Scrooge, even though Scrooge treats Bob Cratchit so horribly, Dickins challenges the views on the poor as the Cratchit family don't hold grudges, and still have happiness even though they are poor, so Dickins is also showing that money doesn't mean happiness, as scrooge has money but he is unhappy.
• "Are there no prisons?" — "Are there no workhouses?"

  (The Ghost of Christmas Present:Stave 3) turning on Scrooge for last time with Scrooge's own words.
• "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

  (Scrooge: Stave 5), showing how Scrooge has completely changed from the miserly man he was before. Sows the theme of redemption.
• "Mankind was my business.The common welfare was by business; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence, were all my business."


  (The Ghost of Jacob Marley: Stave 1)
• "My dear!" — "Christmas day!"

  (Bob Cratchit: Stave 3), Dickins challenges the belief that money means happiness, as even though the Cratchits are financially poor, they are emotionally rich, however scrooge is financially rich, but emotionally poor.
• "I see a vacant seat," — "in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved."

  (The Ghost of Christmas Present: Stave 3), The ghost warns Scrooge that if he doesn't change and help them then Tiny Tim will die.
• "I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself always."

  (Fred: Stave 3) referring to Scrooge, as Fred understands that he is emotionally poor so still deserves sympathy, and this shows that Fred is a kind forgiving character who embodies the Christmas spirit.
• "Always a delicate creature... But she had a large heart!"

  (The Ghost of Christmas Past: Stave 2) referring to Fan, the verb "had shows that Fan dies in the future, suggesting this is why Scrooge isolated himself and doesn't spend Christmas with Fred, as she probably dies tin childbirth.
• The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."


  (Scrooge: Stave 2) referring to Mr Fezziwig, and that he is financially rich, but also emotionally rich as he is happy and joyous and share what he has to make others happy as well.
• "I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you."

  (Belle: Stave 2), Belle broke off their engagement as he became obsessed with money, showing that money has had a negative effect on his life, as it meant he lost Belle.
• "This bot is ignorance and this girl is want" "... on his brow I see that written which is Doom,"

  (The Ghost of Christmas Present: Stave 3), the ghost warns Scrooge that if he doesn't change then there will be, "doom".
• "I help to support the establishments I have mentioned - they cost enough ..."

  (Scrooge: Stave 1), he believes that the taxes he pays, give more than enough to the "idol" poor.
• "I am not the man I was."

  (Scrooge: Stave 4), this shows how Scrooge has changed and been redeemed.