Family
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- Created on: 05-04-17 10:56
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- Family
- Importance
- Family is shown to be a source of comfort, joy and strength
- Examples shown by the visions of the Ghost of Christmas Present
- 'sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts'
- 'Cheerful company'
- Context
- Family was important - Victoria had a large family who were 'models' to her subjects.
- Big families were very common
- Links family and happiness
- Cratchits
- Perfect family
- Close
- Supportive
- Loyal
- Unite over grief of Tiny Tim's death
- Nothing special about them but love makes them happy
- 'nothing of high mark'
- Perfect family
- Fred's Family
- Have fun together at Christmas
- Fred's laughter is 'irresistibly contagious'
- His wife, 'laughed as heartily as he'
- Have fun together at Christmas
- Belle's Family
- Boisterous and playful
- The family is full of 'joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy'
- Scrooge
- doesn't see virtue in family life
- Dismisses invite to Fred's house
- Love is the 'one thing in the world more ridiculous than a Merry Christmas'
- Family is a financial burdon
- Wonders how the Cratchits are merry on 15 shillings a week and a large family
- As a child
- 'a solitary child neglected by his friends'
- 'alone again'
- 'long, bare, melancholy'
- Creates companionship out of book characters
- Foreshadows Scrooges solitary life later on'
- Sene with Belle is a truning point for Scrooge'
- Becomes fixed on money due to loneliness.
- In chapter , Scrooge sees what isolation brings him
- Has nobody to give his belongings to so the thieves take it all.
- No guilt as he was a 'wicked old screw'
- Corpse is left ' plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for' which is the opposite to the tears that the Cratchit family shed over Tiny Tim's death.
- Chance for him to become part of a family.
- As a child he was rescued form isolation when his father become kinder
- He regrets the chances he missed to have his own family with Belle
- Becomes part of two families.
- 'Second father' to Tiny Tim
- embraces relationship with Fred on Christmas Day.
- Marley
- Nearest thing to family Scrooge has in Stave 1
- Scrooge answers to both his name and Marley's
- Marley passes down his rooms to Scrooge
- This is appropriate that it is him who helps to bring Scrooge's redemption
- Importance
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