A Christmas Carol - AQA

• About Scrooge, Stave 1: as solitary as an oyster
• About Scrooge, Stave 1: external heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge
• About Scrooge, Stave 1: no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him
• Scrooge, Stave 1: if they would rather die, they better do it and decrease the surplus population
• Marley, Stave 1: mankind was my business
• Marley, Stave 1: I am here tonight to warn you
• Scrooge, Stave 2: there was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something: thats all
• Ghost of Christmas past, Stave 2: a solitary child, neglected by his friends
• Ghost of Christmas past, Stave 2: this boy is ignorance, this girl is want
• Ghost of the Christmas Past, Stave 2: beware them both, in all their degree, but most of all beware the boy
• Scrooge's grave, Stave 2: overrun by grass and weeds
• Scrooge, Stave 3: I am as light as a feather
• Scrooge, Stave 3: I am as merry as a school boy
• Opening line: Marley was dead; to begin with
• Scrooge is "as sharp and hard as flint"
• Marley’s Ghost, Stave 1: ‘I wear the chain I forged in life’
• Ghost of Christmas Past, Stave 2: a strange figure, like a child and like an old man
• Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave 3: jolly giant
• Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, Stave 4: hooded figure
• Ghost of Christmas future, Stave 4: shrouded in a deep black garment
• Scrooge, Stave 4: "I am not the man i was"
• Final line: "God bless us, every one!"