Fire Symbolism in 'A Christmas Carol'
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- Fire Symbolism in 'A Christmas Carol'
- "From which no steel had ever struck out generous fire"
- "Candles were flaring in the windows of neighbouring offices"
- "He poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark"
- "And has lighted a great fire in the brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered."
- "a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire"
- Young scrooge at school
- "fuel was heaped upon the fire"
- Fezziwig's party
- "as if all the chimneys in great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear heart's content."
- "'Sit ye down before the fire, my dear, and have a warm"
- "a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire"
- "The very lamplighter, who ran on before dotting the dusky streets with specks of light [...] though little kenned the lamplighter that he had any company but Christmas"
- "Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like just one coal."
- In the novella the subject of fire is a recurring theme (a motif) throughout the whole story.
- In the novella, fire symbolises the Christmas Spirit and therefore represents generosity and philanthropy.
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