Redemption
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- Created on: 31-03-17 18:50
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- Redemption
- Scrooge
- Source of dramatic tension as it is questionable whether or not he will achieve redemption.
- At first it seems like he will never change
- 'It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's'
- Concerned he is 'past all hope' but in the last chapter he turns things around
- Used to not be mean
- He used to love others more than money and is capable of this, so may return to his old ways.
- Behaviour change leads to redemption
- At the end he is 'glowing with his good intentions'
- Kindness and generosity that allows him to 'sponge away' his name from his grave
- It is like he has been reborn - 'I'm quite a baby'
- used to 'warning all human sympathy to keep its distance' but he is taught how to empathise with others
- Pity for boyhood self and carol singer he rejected
- Remembers the fun he had at Fezziwig's and empathises with his own clerk
- Learns Fred who regularly displays empathy
- Scared by the lack of sadness shown by others towards his death
- Th empathy felt towards Tiny Tim is what causes him to change the most
- Dickens shows that everyone can achieve redemption.
- Marley admits his chains were forged of his own 'free will' and chose not to change.
- Scrooge's father
- Foreshadows Scrooge's own redemption
- 'is so much kinder than he used to be'
- Marley
- Similar to Scrooge
- responsible for 'procuring' the 'chance and hope' that will help save Scrooge from his fate
- Because Marley is now helping others, it is more likely that Scrooge will change
- Dickens believed that Christianity was about practical kindness and willingness to help others
- Spirits showed him things that made him want to change but did not force him to do so.
- He is determined to not 'shut out the lessons that they teach'
- 'The time before him was his own, to make amends in'
- The time he has left is the time when he can make up for his previous behaviour
- The fact he changes on his own free will makes it more powerful
- BBC BITESIZE
- Scrooge
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