scrooge

• scrooge transmogifies into a compassionate and benevolent member of society as he experiences redemption. as he is a microcosm for the averice upper classes, him transforming into a paternal figure for tiny tim exemplifies the power of redemption and its ability to catalyse positive social reform
• "no warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him"
• "he was as solitary as an oyster"
• "he was as hard and sharp as flint"
• "I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry"
• "are there no prisons? are there no workhouses?"
• "What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
• "if they would rather die...they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population"
• "Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self as he had used to be"
• "Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge
• "I hope to live to be a better man from what I was"
• "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and keep it all the year"
• "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel. I am as merry as a schoolboy."
• "I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I'd rather be a baby"
• "I will live in the past, the present and the future"
• "The Spirits of Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!"
• "Spirit, tell me if Tint Tim will live"
• "Scrooge was his sole executor...his sole friend and his sole mourner."
• "Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous old sinner!"