REDEMPTION

Cards (3)

  • Scrooge's redemption - 1
    Scrooge transmogrifies into a compassionate and benevolent member of society as he is a microsm for the avarice upper classes by becoming a paternal figure for Tiny Tim it exemplifies the power of redemption and its ability to catalyse postive reforms. QOUTE: "he was a father" (4)
  • Scrooge's refusal of redemption - 2
    Scrooge rejects redemption in the beginning he refuses to acknowledge the detrimental consequences of his parimomnus nature. He remains isolated in his self-destructive cocoon of sin, shunning any idea of change
  • Scrooge's plead for redemption
    Scrooge pleads for redemption and salvation when he sees his proleptic grim fate. His abonded and ironically "solitary" death reinforces his desperate need to be cleansed of his sins of greed and misanthropy. QOUTE: "I will live in the past the present and the future the ghost of all three shall strive within me" (5)