How Scrooge changes in a Christmas Carol
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- Created on: 21-05-19 16:05
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- Change in Scrooge
- Keen to maintain his cold image
- When he meets Marley he keeps trying to tell himself that ghosts aren't real However the narrator says that he was "disturbed to the very marrow of his bones"
- Scrooge has always lived like this and is unwilling to change his attitude to life
- When he meets Marley he keeps trying to tell himself that ghosts aren't real However the narrator says that he was "disturbed to the very marrow of his bones"
- Slight change at the end of stave 1
- When Scrooge tries to dismiss Marley with his usual "bah humbug" the narrator says that he "can only get to the first syllable"
- Cold-Hearted and Emotionless
- "No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him."
- Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to describe scrooge. This is extremely apt because like the weather, nothing can be done to change scrooges feelings.
- “No wind that blew
was bitterer than he”
- Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to describe scrooge. This is extremely apt because like the weather, nothing can be done to change scrooges feelings.
- "No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him."
- Lonely and Isolated
- Starts to show emotion in stave 2
- Says that Fran "Had a good heart"
- When a Feziwigs Christmas party he says, "the happiness he gives is quite as good as if it cost a fortune"
- He starts to realise that life isn't all about money
- He is distressed when he realises what his life could have been like if he stayed with belle.
- He starts to realise that life isn't all about money
- Regrets what hes previously said in stave 3
- When the spirit of Christmas present shows scrooge the Cratchit family he asks for tiny Tim to "be spared"
- Scrooge regrets what he has previously said about the poor when the spirit reveals ignorance and want.
- Stave 4
- Scrooge is distraught to find out his future is he changes nothing. He is on his knees promising to the spirit that he will change.
- "I will honour Christmas in my heart"
- Scrooge is distraught to find out his future is he changes nothing. He is on his knees promising to the spirit that he will change.
- Keen to maintain his cold image
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