Lit Paper 1

• 'i cant afford to make idle people merry'


  The adjective 'idle' suggests scrooges harsh opinion that people suffering from poverty are responsible for themselves.
• 'Are there no prisons, and the Union Workhouses?


  Scrooge could not care for the conditions of the poor.
• if they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.'

  Malthusian Theory
• Scrooge was “glowing with good intentions”
• “A merry Christmas uncle! May God save you”-Fred
• “He became as good as a man, as good as a master, as good as the old city knew” shows Scrooges pivotal shift in attitude
• “The only time I know of when men and women seem by the consent to open their shut up hearts freely”

  -Fred

  Describing that Christmas is the only time people have good intentions and are in ‘the Christmas spirit’
• “King Duncan is here in double trust”
• Marleys chains consist of “cashboxes,keys,padlocks,ledgers and deeds”
• “The ghost sat perfectly motionless(…)agitated as by the hot vapour from an oven”
• ”a solemn phantom draped and hooded“
• “Scrooge had a small fire but his clerks was so very much smaller”
• “The broad fields were so full of merry music that the crisp air laughed to hear it“
• “Then all the Cratchits family drew round the hearth”
• “God bless everyone”-TinyTim
• “This tyrant who’s sole name blisters our tongue“
• “Our country(…)it weeps it bleeds and each day a new gash is added”
• “Oh no…say he will be spared”
• “I am as light as a feather, as happy as an angel, as merry as a school boy”
• “Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the lords appointed temple”
• “Turn hell-hound, turn!”-Macduff
• “Thy bones are marrow less, thy blood is cold“