How Scrooge changes in the novella
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- How Scrooge changes in the novella
- Stave 1
- 'He was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral'
- No emotions- only cares about business
- 'No wind that blew was bitterer than he'
- Dehumanisation
- 'What reason do you have to be merry you're poor enough'
- Shares popular belief with most middle class victorians that the poor were poor as they were lazy, and so did not feel the need to provide charity.
- 'Are there no prisons' 'I can't afford to make idle people merry'
- Shares popular belief with most middle class victorians that the poor were poor as they were lazy, and so did not feel the need to provide charity.
- 'The clerks fire was so very much smaller it looked like one coal'
- Provided bad working conditions as it is cheaper
- 'He was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral'
- Stave 3
- 'To-night, if you have aught to teach me let me profit by it'
- 'He might have cultivated the kindness of life for his own happiness... with his own hands'
- recognises he needs to change and wishes he had done it earlier
- Have they no refuge or resource
- Contrasts with in stave one- believing the poor do not need charity- shows change
- 'He begged like a boy to be able to stay until the guests departed'
- As Dickens thought childhood was divine. This shows Scrooge returning to his innocence and his past where he was a good person.
- Stave 2
- 'Wept to see his poor forgotten self'
- 'There was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night, I should have liked to have given him something'
- Is more sympathetic to the poor he once blamed for being idle
- Save 5
- 'Glowing with his good intentions' 'Father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs'
- 'I am quite a baby
- Emphasises how Scrooge is like a new man now he is redeeming himself
- 'I'll give you half-a-crown'
- Contrast to stave 1- now gives out money freely, for a good cause
- 'A merry christmas to everybody '
- 'The time before him was his own to make amends in'
- Is changing for the better
- 'As good a friend, as good a master and as good a person as the whole good city know'
- now is referred to a person, showing he is no longer dehumanised- and so is not objectified as he stands for more than money
- 'Merry as a school boy'
- As Dickens thought childhood was divine- it shows he is now accepted
- Stave 4
- 'I hope to be another man from what i was'
- recognises he needs to change and wishes he had done it earlier
- 'The spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach'
- 'I hope to be another man from what i was'
- Stave 1
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