Christmas carol

• Key Quotes


  • Scrooge
  • Marley
  • Cratchit Family
  • The Ghosts
  • Fezziwig
  • Fred
  • Other
• Ref


  • Quotation
  • Analysis
  • Themes
  • Stave 1
• Scrooge: '"Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend + sole mourner"'
• Scrooge: '"a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"'
• Scrooge: '"hard & sharp as flint"'
• Scrooge: '"solitary as an oyster."'
• Scrooge: '"If they would rather die, they had better do it + decrease the surplus population."'
• Marley: '"I wear the chain I forged in life."'
• Scrooge: '"Humbug! but stopped at the first syllable."'
• The Ghosts: '"It was a strange figure—like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man"'
• Cratchit Family: '"A solitary child, neglected by his friends."'
• Belle: '"Another idol has displaced me.. a golden one."'
• The Ghosts: '"yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish…."'
• Scrooge: '"Are there no workhouses?"'
• Scrooge: '"quickening his pace."'
• Scrooge: '"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."'