Ghost of Christmas Past

• Ghost PAST [S2] - "like a child" "like an old man" | "wore a tunic of the purest white" "branch of fresh green holly" "head there sprung a bright clear jet of light"

  • Juxtaposes "old"/"young". Child + purity and innocence/ man = wisdom. ghost is powerful
  • superlative adjective "purest" - angel like language - child - free from sin/crime - Scrooge's childhood
  • Context: Victorians used flowers for meaning. Reader knew holly means forgetting the past + symbol of winter
  • Adjective "clear" = truth in memories. Scrooge tries to extinguish the light - too much for him? metaphor for right way of life