Jacob Marley - Stave One
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- 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.
- Mirror Image
- 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
- Foreshadows his grand entrance into Scrooge's room.
- "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.
- "The chain was made up of cash boxes, ledgers, heavy purses."
- Carrying Scrooge's sins
- "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.
- "The chain was made up of cash boxes, ledgers, heavy purses."
- Sarcasm
- "My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money changing hole."
- Very persuasive, fearful for Scrooge's future.
- "Mankind was my business!"
- Very persuasive, fearful for Scrooge's future.
- "Marley was as dead as a doornail."
- 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
- "Cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant."
- Carrying sins
- Could be argued that Earth is their form of Purgatory
- Doomed to live in Purgatory (tortured)
- Wider Reading
- Appeals to all of society
- "Mankind was my business!"
- Scrooge's dead partner who returns as a ghost to warn Scrooge to change his ways.
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