a christmas carol

• ‘if they’d rather die they’d better do it and decrease the surplus popution’
• ‘it was cold, bleak, biting weather… the fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole’
• ‘scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerks fire was so very much smaller’
• ‘what right have you to be merry! What reason have you to be merry! You’re poor enough!’
• ‘scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief‘
• ‘scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him’
• ‘i know your purpose is to do me good… i hope i live to be another man from what i was’
• ‘easterly winds’ S1
• ‘squeezing, wretching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner’ S1
• ‘external heat and cold has little influence’ S1
• ‘are there no prison?… are there no workhouses? - ghost (malthusian theory) S1
• ‘fog and darkness thickened’ S1
• ‘I am as light as a feather, i am as happy as an angel, i am as merry as a school boy, i am as giddy as a drunken man’
• 'tight fisted' - about scrooge
• 'the happiness he gives is quite as great as if it costs a fortune' - fezziwig
• 'ali baba!' 'robin crusose!' - scrooge
• 'tell me if tiny tim will live' scrooge
• 'people laughed to see the alteration in him but he let them laugh' 'his own heart laughed an that was quite enough for him' - stave 5