Jacob Marley - Stave One

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  • Created by: Gabrielle
  • Created on: 27-10-17 19:24
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  • Jacob Marley
    • Scrooge's dead partner who returns as a ghost to warn Scrooge to change his ways.
      • Didactic
      • Moral
      • Preaching
      • Pleading
        • Persuasive speech
    • Replica of Scrooge
      • Mirror Image
        • Duality
      • Represents Scrooge's fate if he is to continue his nature.
    • Quotes
      • "Marley was as dead as a doornail."
        • Foreshadows his grand entrance into Scrooge's room.
          • Structural links in the text
        • Structural links in the text
      • "Is this pattern strange to you?"
        • Sarcasm
          • They are the same person.
        • Links to the duality between the two characters
          • "I wear the chains I forged in life."
            • Carrying Scrooge's sins
              • "The chain was made up of cash boxes, ledgers, heavy purses."
                • Represents his greed.
        • Carrying Scrooge's sins
          • "The chain was made up of cash boxes, ledgers, heavy purses."
            • Represents his greed.
      • "My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money changing hole."
        • Very persuasive, fearful for Scrooge's future.
          • "Mankind was my business!"
    • Represents the supernatural
      • Wider Reading
        • The inspector from An Inspector Calls.
        • Scrooge's conscience
      • Religious or Christian message
        • Doomed to live in Purgatory (tortured)
          • Could be argued that Earth is their form of Purgatory
            • "Cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant."
              • Intensifies Marley's purpose
          • Carrying sins
    • Appeals to all of society
      • "Mankind was my business!"

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