Symbols in A Christmas Carol
Themes shown throughout A Christmas Carol along with relevant quotes and context surrounding them :)
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- Symbols in A Christmas Carol
- Light
- Symbol of Affection
- Symbol of generosity
- Fezziwig - "Fuel heaped on the fire"
- He is warm, bright, generous and radiant
- Fezziwig - "Fuel heaped on the fire"
- Symbol of warmth
- Ghosts of past and present both has associations with light
- Scrooge at the end is described with bright imagery to symbolise his rebirth and change
- "Glowing"
- Fire
- Fire and brightness are symbols of emotional warmth
- Conveys the message of unity and togetherness
- Miners are "gathered around a glowing fire"
- When scrooge travels thought the streets there are "roaring fires"
- Belle sat by her fire when scrooge visited her - "Near to the winter fire sat a beautiful young girl"
- Bob cratchit has a "feeble fire" at the start but at the end scrooge says, "Make up the fires"
- Scrooge opens up his heart
- Scrooges change is shown through the use of fire
- Weather
- Beginning of novella
- "No warmth could warm, no wintery weather chill him"
- Cold character internally and externally
- Not even the cold has effect on him
- unaffected by changes and events around him
- "Foggier yet, and colder"
- "Foggier" = Scrooges ignorance
- he is unable to see the consequences of his selfish ways
- Oblivious
- He cannot see what he is doing or what he has done
- Oblivious
- he is unable to see the consequences of his selfish ways
- "Fog" is metaphorically representing the barrier that divides the classes
- "Foggier" = Scrooges ignorance
- "No warmth could warm, no wintery weather chill him"
- End of novella
- "Clear, bright, jovial"
- Scrooge has almost been 'enlightened' by the ghosts who have allowed him to see clearly now
- Clear juxtaposition from the start of the novella
- Scrooge has now changed his ways and become a generous and glowing person
- "Golden sunlight"
- Clear juxtaposition from the start of the novella
- Scrooge has now changed his ways and become a generous and glowing person
- Clear juxtaposition from the start of the novella
- "Clear, bright, jovial"
- Beginning of novella
- Darkness
- Ghost of christmas yet to come
- "Hooded and draped"
- "Darkness was cheep and scrooge liked it"
- Scrooges greedy and solitary nature
- Ghost of christmas yet to come
- Ignorance and want
- Symbolic of the poor
- More specifically the industrial poor who had to withstand extreme conditions
- Ignorance and want appear from the ghosts robes, this highlights how they have been neglected and forgotten by society
- More specifically the industrial poor who had to withstand extreme conditions
- They are allegorical characters
- This means that they highlight the messages to society that dickens was trying to convey
- Dickens wanted to change the way the rich viewed the poor
- Through this Dickens wanted to unite society and create an atmosphere with greater togetherness, compassion, unity and charity.
- Dickens wanted to highlight the hardship the poor had to withstand
- Through this Dickens wanted to unite society and create an atmosphere with greater togetherness, compassion, unity and charity.
- Dickens wanted the decrease the gap between the rich and the poor
- Through this Dickens wanted to unite society and create an atmosphere with greater togetherness, compassion, unity and charity.
- Dickens wanted to highlight the hardship the poor had to withstand
- Through this Dickens wanted to unite society and create an atmosphere with greater togetherness, compassion, unity and charity.
- Dickens wanted to change the way the rich viewed the poor
- This means that they highlight the messages to society that dickens was trying to convey
- Symbolic of the poor
- Light
- "Golden sunlight"
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