Scrooge

• scrooge


  protagonist, initially miserly, selfish and cold and then experiences a bildingsroman into a charitable and better man
• "secret and self-contained and as solitary as an oyster"
• "squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,

  covetous old sinner"
• “If they had rather die…they had better do it and decrease

  the surplus population”
• miser


  a person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible
• misanthropist 


  a person who dislikes mankind and avoids human society
• solitary


  existing alone and being secluded
• "He has the power to render us happy or unhappy… the

  happiness he gives, is… as if it cost a fortune"
• “A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there

  still”
• “Another idol has displaced me. A golden one.” (Belle said to Scrooge)
• “I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one,

  until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you.” (Belle said to Scooge)
• avarice 


  extreme greed for wealth or material gain
• Scrooge is used to show that everyone can change
• scrooge represents the difference between those who have money and those who do not
• "scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administer, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and his sole mourner"
• "hard and sharp as flint"
• "you may be an undigested bit of beef ... theres more of gravy than of grave about you"


  use of humour to show how scrooge isnt yet coming to terms with the seriousness of this situation and he wants to pass it off as just a joke
• Scrooge "sobbed" when the ghost of christmas past called his younger school-boy self "neglected"
• "i learnt a lesson which is working now"
• "to-night is you aught to teach me, let me profit by it"

  the word profit links to how he is still a money grabbing selfish man and his transformation is not yet complete but ongoing
• "tell me if tiny tim will live"
• "decrease the surplus population"
• "i will honour christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year"
• "i will live in the past, present and future"
• "i will not shut out the lessons that they teach"
• "i am as happy as an angel"
• "i am as merry as a school-boy"
• "i am as light as a feather"


  feather connote freedom and flight implying he is closer to heaven than he was previously
• Scrooge's exclamations 'Bah!' and 'Humbug!'


  Reveal a misanthropic, cynical attitude