A christmas Carol
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- Created on: 09-03-19 19:09
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- A Christmas Carol
- Main events
- Stave 1
- Scrooge makes his clerk, Bob Cratchit, work in the cold
- Refuses to give any money to charity
- Bob Marley visits him and warns him about the three ghosts that will come to visit him
- Stave 2
- Visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past
- Taken to five Christmases from his past.
- Scrooge remembers the joy Fezziwig offered employees, despite the cost.
- Belle breaks off their engagement, crying that greed has corrupted the love that Scrooge once felt.
- Stave 3
- Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present
- The ghost takes him to the Cratchit's house to show him the poverty they live ion.
- The spirit takes Scrooge some Christmas gatherings e.g. sailors and minors.
- The ghost shows Scrooge a pair of starving children: Ignorance and Want.
- Stave 4
- The ghost is silent and points with an unmoving finger where he wants Scrooge to look or go.
- The ghost takes Scrooge to a series of strange places where the people are complaining about the dead person
- Finds his name engraved on a gravestone, he finds out he was who everyone was talking about.
- Stave 1
- Key quotations
- Stave 1
- "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"
- "hard and sharp as flint"
- "to decrease the surplus population"
- "The chain he drew waas clasped about his middle!
- Stave 2
- "Another idol has displaced me."
- "A solitary child, neglected by his friend is left there still."
- "Father is so much kinder than he used to be."
- Stave 3
- "The boy is ignorance. The girl is want"
- "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
- "Tell me if Tiny Tim will live"
- Stave 4
- "The spirits of all three will strive within me"
- "Spirit, hear me! I am not the man I was"
- "Shrouded in a deep black garment"
- Stave 5
- "A merry Christmas to everybody!"
- "A great many back payments"
- "I am about to raise your salary"
- Stave 1
- Key points about context
- A Christmas Carol was written with the intention of drawing readers' attention to the plight of England's poor.
- The readers would be rich as they were the only ones that could afford the books and were the ones ignoring the poor
- Dickens' message
- Christmas is the time of year where everybody should rejoice and be happy.
- London was full of poverty, crime and pollution. Dickens was outraged at the conditions in which working classes lived.
- Wanted to make the rich realise that the working class were suffering and that they should help.
- Main events
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