ACC - Childhood
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- ACC -Childhood
- context: victorian england - kids worked in mines, chimneys, factories (Dickens childhood - uses in acc)
- Idealised view of childhood as a time of innocence & purity
- (Dickens shows) Scrooge - unhappy childhood but knew love from Fran
- Experienced sad/lonely and happy times (contrasts)
- being lonely, vulnerable & surrounded by loved ones encourage Scrooge change & sympathy for others
- Importance - saves Tiny Tim. Symbolically about society
- being lonely, vulnerable & surrounded by loved ones encourage Scrooge change & sympathy for others
- Experienced sad/lonely and happy times (contrasts)
- Scrooge childhood
- Response: EMOTIONAL, physical - lips trembled, ghost suggests crying
- "Your lip is trembling [...] and what is that upon your cheek?"
- 'A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire' 'Scrooge [...] wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be'
- 'Feeble fire' - alliteration. link (reflects): pathetic fallacy in stave 1 describing scrooge coldness. Being left affected emotions
- Theme: isolation - why Scrooge = grumpy
- 'Feeble fire' - alliteration. link (reflects): pathetic fallacy in stave 1 describing scrooge coldness. Being left affected emotions
- "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there (school) still,"
- Scrooge = similar to miserable & lonely childhood ('solitary') but now he chooses to be alone
- foreshadowing he does have ability to change (emotion link to past)
- 'Scrooge said he knew it, and he sobbed'
- emotional juxtaposes stave 1 scrooge (start of chnage)
- Sobbed - connecting to childhood, causes pain
- Past ghost described as child + old man. Symbolasis reconnecting of feelings
- 'It was a strange figure -- like a child: yet [...] like an old man'
- 'In pity for his former self, "Poor boy!" and cried again'
- Scrooge filled mind with fictional characters from books he read when left alone at xmas - to forget loneliness. character's became real to him
- Book was about a boy (Robinson) stranded on island. Scrooge felt stranded with no companions
- Scrooge filled mind with fictional characters from books he read when left alone at xmas - to forget loneliness. character's became real to him
- Fran
- Fred = last childhood link. Childhood was miserable but last trace of love (Fran)
- "she had a large heart! [...] and died a woman' 'and had,as I think, children [...] Your nephew!" 'Scrooge seemed uneasy [...] and answered briefly "Yes"
- 'large heart' confirms love & affection is character
- Juxtaposition of lonely times & loving.
- 'uneasy' - reconnecting
- "she had a large heart! [...] and died a woman' 'and had,as I think, children [...] Your nephew!" 'Scrooge seemed uneasy [...] and answered briefly "Yes"
- Sybalsis best of youth (innocence & goodness)
- Contrastes cold, dark, lonely aspects of Scrooge's childhood + presents scrooge with love & affection
- Shows Scrooge's experienced both neglect & goodness
- 'She clapped her hands and laughed'
- Joyous moment. Shows love, affection, warmth. Happy to be around Scrooge
- [...] 'stood on tiptoe to embrace him'
- Fred = last childhood link. Childhood was miserable but last trace of love (Fran)
- Signify youth & innocence before industrialization
- Response: EMOTIONAL, physical - lips trembled, ghost suggests crying
- Belle's children
- 'They were in [...] a room, not very large or handsome, but full of comfort'
- Weren't rich. rich with love
- 'winter fire'
- juxtaposition acts as contrasts (winter = scrooge. fire = metaphorical warmth - love)
- 'The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous'
- Perfect idealized family - able to show affection towards each other
- 'Mother and daughter laughed heartily'
- 'kicked his legs in irrepressible affection'
- Kids = affection Scrooge is lacking
- 'The shouts of wonder and delight'
- Scrooge looks with envy at the siblings playing
- Life Scrooge missed out on with Belle
- Liveness contrasts Scrooge's house
- 'They were in [...] a room, not very large or handsome, but full of comfort'
- Tiny Tim
- Cratchits surrounded by love
- Through suffering, points out lack of values of adults + ignorance of rich
- Symbol of suffering
- Shows courage through suffering
- powerless to improve situation - acts as lesson/warning to society & Scrooge
- Dickens criticize victorian economy, society, morals
- Tim saved because Scrooge changes - message to mankind about society responsibility
- Dickens criticize victorian economy, society, morals
- Symbol of suffering
- Symbol of jesus, asks god to 'bless us everyone'
- 'he hoped people saw him in the church because he was a cripple' [...] it might be pleasant to them to remember [...] who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see'
- Foil to Scrooge
- Ignorance & want
- 'two children; [...] frightful, hideos, miserable'
- children of mankind - result of society + mankind responsible for them (criticism of society)
- 'wolfish'
- Humanity acting animal-like
- sufferers are innocent children
- Humanity acting animal-like
- 'wolfish'
- children of mankind - result of society + mankind responsible for them (criticism of society)
- 'monsters half so horrible'
- suggested created due to treatment to poor
- 'where devils might have sat enthroned, devil's lurked'
- Devils = evil. result of man's evil
- Represent evil's of mankind + danger of poverty
- Dickens warns the more weary of ignorance (root of problem)
- Examplied: Scrooge refuse charity + wants poor dead
- (Dickens thought) If poor not educated, can't escape poverty
- Children must be educated to improves society
- (Dickens thought) If poor not educated, can't escape poverty
- Examplied: Scrooge refuse charity + wants poor dead
- Devils = evil. result of man's evil
- 'where devils might have sat enthroned, devil's lurked'
- suggested created due to treatment to poor
- 'two children; [...] frightful, hideos, miserable'
- context: victorian england - kids worked in mines, chimneys, factories (Dickens childhood - uses in acc)
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