A Christmas Carol
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- Created on: 10-09-16 11:08
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- Scrooge's personality
- Cold , cruel unfeeling man
- Dickens repeatedly refers to the cold when describing him eg he writes that Scrooge has a "frosty rime on his head"
- He tells charity workers that if the poor would rather die than go to a workhouse y" then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population "
- Tight fisted stingy only cares about money
- Selfish with money as when his friend and business partner MARLEY dies Scrooge organises a cheap funeral
- Not willing to buy a new sign for the business
- Answers to both names Scrooge and Marley
- "Funeral and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain"
- Not willing to buy a new sign for the business
- Stave 1 described as " squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner"
- Selfish with money as when his friend and business partner MARLEY dies Scrooge organises a cheap funeral
- Not an appealing character
- "The cold within him froze hils old features, nipped his nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and he spoke out shrewdly in his grating "
- A mislerley owner of a London Counting House
- isolated man - isolated in his own environment
- No one In the village seems to approach Scrooge
- Scrooge has driven his neighbours not to speak to him
- Not interested in anyone even his own family
- Despises all things that give him happiness
- Seems as. Though he is dead or waiting to die
- role main character in the book used to represent the rich in Victorian Era
- He had a bad past that he tried to forget that might have made home cold
- A Victorian inch who neglects the poor and only thinks of their own well being
- CONTEXT set in Victorian London Dickens was poor and his parents went to workhouses . He wanted to make Scrooge disliked at the beginning and liked at the end to encourage upper classss to be more generous
- ALLEGORY - type of narrative where characters represent themes or ideas
- Scrooge represents greed, apathy and all that is against Christmas Sipirit
- 5. Staves which are distinct episodes in Scrooges spiritual re- education
- Stave 1 visitation from Marley' s ghost
- Stave 2 ghost of Christmas past
- Stave 2 ghost of Christmas present
- Stave 3 ghost of Christmas future
- Stave. 5 Scrooge has changed to a warm kind and joyful benefactor
- Cold , cruel unfeeling man
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