Scrooge Character Analysis (Mind Map)
For 2017 exams onwards.
- Created by: PoppyShaw
- Created on: 17-08-16 23:53
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- Scrooge
- 'Cold-hearted'
- How is Scrooge like this?
- According to Dickens description, Scrooge is cold through and through
- Evidence? 'No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him'
- Analysis? Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to represent scrooges nature. The weather is a metaphor for Scrooge's behaviour as he cannot be made either warmer or colder by it.
- Evidence? 'No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him'
- According to Dickens description, Scrooge is cold through and through
- How is Scrooge like this?
- 'Miserly'
- How is Scrooge like this?
- Scrooge is stingy with his money and will not even allow his clerk Bob Cratchit to have a decent fire to warm him on Christmas Eve.
- Evidence? '...as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part'
- Analysis? The indirect speech shows that Scrooge is threatening and in charge. He will not give permission for Cratchit to take more coal.
- Evidence? '...as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part'
- Scrooge is stingy with his money and will not even allow his clerk Bob Cratchit to have a decent fire to warm him on Christmas Eve.
- How is Scrooge like this?
- 'Ill-mannered'
- How is Scrooge like this?
- His nephew visits him to wish him a 'Merry Christmas' and Scrooge is rude to him in response.
- Evidence? 'Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'
- Analysis? Scrooges response is comical, but unpleasant. He cannot accept the generosity that is offered him and instead turns images of Christmas into images of violence.
- Evidence? 'Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'
- His nephew visits him to wish him a 'Merry Christmas' and Scrooge is rude to him in response.
- How is Scrooge like this?
- 'Self-deluded'
- How is Scrooge like this?
- 'Cold-hearted'
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