Christmas Carol Quotes

• Religious quote from Stave 2 by Belle is "Another idol has displaced me... a golden one"
• Two quotes from Stave 3 about religion/faith are

  • "He hoped people saw him in the Church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day"
  • "Holly wreath... It's dark brown curls were long and free; free as it's genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand"
• Religious quote from Stave 4 by Scrooge "Oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone"
• Supernatural/gothic quote by Jacob Marley in Stave 1 - "I wear the chain I forged in life"
• A quote to describe the Ghost of Christmas Past is "bright clear jet of light"
• Two quotes to show ghosts/supernatural/gothic from Stave 3:

  • "Holly wreath... It's dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand"
  • "this boy is ignorance. This girl is want"
• Two quotes to show Scrooge's fear in Stave 1 are:

  • "and locked himself in: double-locked himself in, which was not his custom"
  • "to edge his way along the crowded paths of life"
• Two quotes from Stave 2 to show Scrooge's fear:

  • "you fear the world too much"
  • "leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer"
• Four fear quotes from Stave 4:

  • "Ghost of the future, I fear you more than any spectre I have seen"
  • "I will not shut out the lessons they teach"
  • "Oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone"
  • "It's mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread"
• Quotes about Scrooge's greed/money from Stave 1:

  • "My clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and a family, talking about a merry christmas"
  • "Are there no prisons... workhouses"
  • "I can't afford to make idle people merry"
  • "If they would rather die... they had better do it and decrease the surplus population"
• Quote from Stave 1 about business from Marley - "Mankind was my business... The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business"
• Two quotes to show Scrooge's change for greed/money in Stave 5:

  • "I'll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family"
  • Offers a large sum of money to the charity collector
• Quotes to show Scrooge's original character in Stave 1 which can then be juxtaposed with his change:

  • "Hard and sharp as flint"
  • "solitary as an oyster"
  • small fires in Scrooge's office (no light/warmth)
  • "I can't afford to make idle people merry"
  • "to edge his way along the crowded paths of life"
• Quote to show Scrooge's greed/money in Stave 2 - "Another idol has displaced me... a golden one"
• Quotes to show Scrooge trying to change in Stave 4 -

  • "I will not shut out the lessons they teach"
  • "Let me see some tenderness connected with a death"
  • "Oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone"
• Quotes to show Scrooge's change/redemption in Stave 5:

  • "as merry as a school boy"
  • "as light as a feather"
  • "make up the fires"
  • "I'll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family"
• Poverty presentation in Stave 1:

  • "My clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and a family, talking about a merry christmas"
  • "Are there no prisons... workhouses"
  • "I can't afford to make idle people merry"
  • "And if they would rather die... they had better do it and decrease the surplus population"
• Poverty presentation in Stave 3:

  • "this boy is ignorance. This girl is want"
  • "Windows blacker... contasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground"
• A quote to show gothic/supernatural/ghosts in Stave 4

  • "It's mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread"
• Two quotes for the presentation of the Ghost of Christmas future are:

  • "It's mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread"
  • "Ghost of the future, I fear you more than any spectre I have seen"