Ebeneezer Scrooge - A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol - Ebeneezer Scrooge
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- Created on: 03-12-17 16:14
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- Cold-Hearted
- Ebeneezer Scrooge
- Stingy
- "Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room..."
- Did not want to waste any coal on his clerk
- "tight-fisted hand at the grindstone"
- Metaphor - emphasises Scrooge's stinginess.
- "I can't afford to make idle people merry."
- He isn't willing to give any more money towards the poor
- "Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room..."
- ill-mannered
- "Good afternoon!"
- Rude response to get rid of Fred and the charity workers.
- "Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips..."
- He cannot accept Fred's generosity and so turns images of Christmas to violence.
- "Bah! Humbug!"
- Shows he has a bad attitude towards Christmas and is pessimistic to those who are positive.
- "Good afternoon!"
- Isolated
- "solitary as an oyster"
- Simile
- emphasis on his loneliness
- Simile
- "But what did Scrooge care? It was the very thing he liked."
- Rhetorical Question
- Scrooge preferred to be alone
- "For nobody lived in it but Scrooge"
- He lived alone - didn't have the company of a family
- "a solitary child"
- He was lonely as a child too - could explain why he decided to keep himself isolated as an adult
- "... he'd have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death..."
- He stays isolated in the future - he suffers the consequence of isolation when he dies with no one beside him
- "solitary as an oyster"
- Stingy
- "No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him."
- Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to represent Scrooges nature
- The weather is used as a metaphor for Scrooges behaviour - it suggests nothing can affect the way he is
- Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to represent Scrooges nature
- "He carried his own low temperature"
- Metaphor
- Ebeneezer Scrooge
- Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to represent Scrooges nature
- The weather is used as a metaphor for Scrooges behaviour - it suggests nothing can affect the way he is
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