fred

• Foil character


  A character whose main purpose is to highlight the personality traits of another character
• Fred


  • Exaggeratedly good man
  • Generous
  • Friendly
  • Forgiving
• Scrooge


  • Exaggeratedly awful traits
  • Greed
  • Selfishness
  • General unkindness
• Scrooge's description


  Words related to cold: froze, nipped, blue, frosty, iced, low temperature
• Fred's description


  Words evoking warmth: heated, glow, ruddy, sparkled, smoked
• Dialogue between Scrooge and Fred

  • Scrooge: "Humbug, Christmas!"

  Fred: "What right have you to be dismal?"
• Antithesis


  The direct opposite, using parallel grammar structure to establish opposition in ideas or characters
• Fred resembles his mother Fan, who Scrooge had a close relationship with in the past
• Fred represents the middle class, while Scrooge is part of the wealthier portion of society and Bob Cratchit represents the poorer working class
• Fred's treatment of Bob Cratchit


  • Attentive and kind, an example of how employers should treat their employees
• Fred continues to invite Scrooge over for Christmas, revealing that Scrooge's isolation is by choice
• Fred does not expect to inherit Scrooge's fortune, proving he is genuinely kind and not just after Scrooge's money
• Caricature-like characters


  Characters with exaggerated qualities, used by Dickens to teach social lessons
• Fred's consistent goodness provides reassurance that Scrooge will be welcomed in once he changes his ways
• Scrooge's behaviour after his transformation is similar to Fred's, suggesting Fred was a standard for Scrooge to aspire to
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• They have different opinions on life

  Yet have similar levels of intellect and
• Fred in a sent resembles his Mother Fan


  Who Scrooge was dose with
• Fred


  Mirrors her kindness and companion
• Due to Scrooge's abandonment


  Invests his cold demeanor and become more like Fred
• Scrooge


  Pushes Fred away
• Scrooge


  Shuts everyone out
• Scrooge


  Realises money Ain't everything
• Scrooge


  Obsesses about Money
• Scrooge


  Loves + cherishes frances
• Scrooge


  Mirrors thus how a like they would have been
• Scrooge


  Realises money is more important to him
• Scrooge


  Has unresolved imites from the part which affects his future
• Fred: '"pray come to Me"'
• You don't have to be rich to help others
• Scrooge's isolation is by choice yet fred consistently thes to include him in his life
• Scrooge's offences carry their own punishment and he has nothing to say against him... who suffers by his ill whims & Homself, always
• Scrooge could view fred's attempt of friendship as a loss of wealth
• Since fred is Scrooge's only living relective all her wealth would go to Fred
• Fred: '"I want nothing from you, I one nothing of you why cannot we be friends"'
• Fred


  Scrooge's nephew who is a complete opposite of his uncle
• Fred


  • Forgiving
  • Generous
  • Friendly
• Scrooge


  • Carries his own low temperature always about with him
  • Wants everyone to be miserable like him
• Fred


  • Had to heated himself with rapid walking in the jog and frost
  • Warm hearts physically and Metaphoricall and doesn't want let Scrooge's way words affect him
• Scrooge and fred's first conversation confirms that Fred's opinions on life is the antithesis of Scrooge's opinions