A Christmas Carol- Characters- Scrooge
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- Created on: 22-01-18 20:41
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- Scrooge
- At the start scrooge is bitter, cynical and isolated
- He's described as a " squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"
- Scrooge is selfish, he doesn't care about his attitude
- At the start Scrooge is portrayed negatively, as someone who only cares about money
- In Scrooge's past his fiancee Belle says that Scrooge sees money as his "idol"
- This suggests that he worships money like it's God
- Scrooge is unsympathetic towards other people and has no interest in helping the poor
- Dickens describes scrooge using cold and icy language. This association with the cold emphasises Scrooge's cold-hearted nature
- Scrooge is shown sympathetically as a lonely boy. We learn that he's been left there because his father wont let him come home for christmas
- Tiny Tim helps Scrooge to feel empathy again, Tim's situation makes Scrooge start to care about people.
- Scrooge is "overcome with penitence and grief" when he realises how wrong he's been.
- Scrooge then becomes generous, happy and sociable
- Mrs Cratchit critises Scrooge for the way he treats Bob
- Key Quotes
- The cold within him froze his old features
- A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
- He carried his own low temperature always about with him
- The Ghosts help Scrooge change for the better
- At the start scrooge is bitter, cynical and isolated
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