Ebeneezer Scrooge - A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol - Ebeneezer Scrooge 

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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
      • 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.
      • Isolated
        • "solitary as an oyster"
          • Simile
            • emphasis on his loneliness
        • "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
    • "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
    • "He carried his own low temperature"
      • Metaphor
  • 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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