Regret

• Dickens uses Marley as a cautionary trial, warning the victorian audience
• ’ i wear the chain i forged in life’
• 3 ghosts allow scrooge to see his heartless actions, driven by a cruel lack of social responsibility
• ‘it’s too late now.. there was a boy singing a christmas carol.. i should like to have given him something’

  • scrooge regrets his actions, sees himself in the carol singer
  • realised he treated the poor as his father treated him
• ‘no space of regret can make amends for one’s life of opportunity misused’

  • marley feels remorse and regret. as he realised he missed many opportunities to make amends.
  • Warns audience if they do not want to be changed eternally in purgatory as well, they must change