A Christmas Carol - Key Quotes
- Created by: hania04
- Created on: 10-04-17 11:26
View mindmap
- A Christmas Carol Key Quotes
- "Old Marley was as dead as a doornail"
- Simile//foreshadowing - this is the foregrounding of Marley being dead.
- "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone"
- Imposes hard work on his employees with very little pay.
- "If they had rather die... they better do it and decrease the surplus population"
- Bitter attitude towards the poor from Scrooge. Lack of empathy.
- "Mankind was my business"
- Marley regrets not looking after the people rather than using and abusing for profit.
- "A small matter... to make those silly folks so full of gratitude"
- Christmas Present - Scrooge could do so little and still be a better man.
- "I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you"
- Belle watches Scrooges transition from caring to greed.
- "Will you decide what men will live, what men will die?"
- Christmas Present - questioning Scrooge's ideology.
- "This boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware of them both..."
- Represents the society's abandonment of the poor. They represent the evils of man.
- "The only emotion the Ghost could she him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure"
- Ghost of Christmas Future - pleasure about Scrooges death.
- "I am not the man I was"
- Also, evidence for Scrooge's change.
- "To Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father"
- Foregrounding with NOT. This also shows evidence for Scrooge's change.
- "Old Marley was as dead as a doornail"
Similar English Literature resources:
Teacher recommended
Comments
Report