Key Quotes - Stave One

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What simile does Dickens use to describe Marley being dead and why?
"dead as a doornail", to show that Marley may never have been truly alive as doornails never lived. Also, perhaps simile to show that Marley must be compared to something else to be noticed or understood as simile is comparison.
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What repetition does Dickens use about Scrooge to Marley to show that Marley was isolated apart from Scrooge?
"Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event"
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Why does Dickens use this repetition?
Repetition of word "sole" (perhaps links to later simile of Scrooge being as "solitary as an oyster". Notice both Marley and Scrooge are described using similes).
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How does Dickens show Scrooge's loss of identity in society?
"he answered to both names. It was all the same to him."
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Which two similes does Dickens use to describe Scrooge and why?
"Hard and sharp as flint" (to show that Scrooge is cold and unfeeling) and "solitary as an oyster" (Scrooge is lonesome and prefers it, Scrooge may have a hidden pearl)
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When does Dickens use juxtaposing in a metaphorical way about Scrooge?
"No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him." This juxtaposing may have been intended to present Scrooge as almost a ghost (like Marley later in the stave), an outsider to society. The metaphorical aspect proves that it is not literally meant.
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When does Dickens use pathetic fallacy and why?
Description of the weather opposite Scrooge's "counting-house", to show Scrooge's general moods and the kind of effect Scrooge's presence has on those around him. So kind of metaphorical.
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What is the pathetic fallacy Dickens uses?
"It was cold, bleak, biting weather; foggy withal ... The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that ... To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that nature lived
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hard by, and was brewing on a large scale."
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Metaphor showing the effect of Christmastime on those who enjoy it about Fred
"he was all in a glow" (suggests his joy is luminous and so should be contagious - another indication that Scrooge is outside normal society as, while seeming to be contagious to Bob Cratchit, is has not the slightest effect on Scrooge
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Rhetorical question, rule of three and repetition used by Scrooge to attempt to shame Fred into stop enjoying Christmas
"What's Christmastime to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books, and having every item in 'em ... presented dead against you?"
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Reason for Dickens to use rhetorical question and repetition?
Both persuasive devices, suggesting Dickens is trying to tell the reader that Scrooge did not originally believe this but persuaded himself into it and tries to persuade others to prove to himself that he is right. Repetition of time may be intended
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to show that Scrooge is subconsciously aware that his "time" is running out (if he had carried on in the same way, he would have died soon after the events of the novella - how soon is not specified).
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What does Fred say about Christmastime (note Dickens's criticism of Victorian society)?
"I have always thought of Christmastime ... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of ... when men and women ... open their shut-up hearts freely, and ... think of people below them as if they really were
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When does Dickens use the two charity workers to give his own comment on Victorian society?
"the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at this present time (Christmas). Many thousands are in want of common necessities; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
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Scrooge's statement about himself that shows his obsession with his business.
"Mine occupies me constantly."
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What happens after Scrooge sends the charity workers away?
Pathetic fallacy - the weather gets much harsher and foggier, showing that Scrooge's actions can have a very negative effect (because of the sequence of events - this description happens right after the workers leave - it seems as though Scrooge
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refusing to help the poor has caused an increase in the harshness of the weather
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What phrase shows that Marley's Ghost has lost control and that Scrooge could too?
"its horror seemed to be ... beyond its control"
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Why does Dickens use irony when describing Scrooge's lack of fear (a pretense) because of Marley's Ghost?
To show that Scrooge has been deceiving himself morally and as to what will make him happy.
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When does Dickens use juxtaposing about darkness?
"Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it." When Scrooge is in his "rooms". Used by Dickens to present Scrooge as a contrast to normal Victorian society (and so an outsider) because he prefers money (you don't have to pay for darkness) to
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happiness (represented by light). This is unuasal as most would have wanted money for happiness rather than instead of it as Scrooge does
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Which factual statement does Dickens use to suggest that the spirits may not have been real but rather caused by Scrooge's subconscious, very repressed, conscience?
"Scrooge had a cold in the head." The scenario that Scrooge imagined it is unlikely, but why else would Dickens make Scrooge unwell when the events of the novella take place? Dickens probably means the Spirits as real, though.
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Which imperative command does Marley's Ghost use to show that he has lost identity as a ghost in a kind of hell?
"Ask me who I was." ("was" is slanted)
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What is Marley's Ghost's factual statement that is almost certainly Dickens's personal opinion?
"It is required of every man ... that the spirit within him should walk among his fellow-men and travel far and wide"
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Which phrase shows that both Marley's Ghost (who does get) and Scrooge (who would get) deserve their punishment that Marley's Ghost gets but Scrooge escapes?
"free will" "I girded it of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?" ("you" is slanted). Notice the rhetorical question - Marley's Ghost may be presented by Dickens as trying to persuade as well as warn
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Which noun in the phrase "our money-changing hole" by Marley's Ghost is significant?
"hole" as it shows that this is what Marley's Ghost now thinks of the life he led and the money he worshipped - a "hole" that led him to his punishment.
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Which of Dickens's uses of repetition and emotive language show how hard Marley's Ghost's punishment is?
"No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse."
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When does Dickens use the rule of three to show how remorseful and regretful Marley's Ghost is?
"captive, bound and double-ironed" about Scrooge and then saying that he was the same.
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What emotive language and rule of three does Dickens use to show the suffering of ghosts such as Marley's Ghost and how does he back their prospects (i.e. chance of change at that point - none) up with pathetic fallacy?
"confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory." "mournful dirge" "bleak, dark night."
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What emotive language does Dickens use to show the reader that the ghosts now long to help others?
"one old ghost ... cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it say below upon a doorstep." Notice use of "it " instead of he. It, through its actions in life, has lost the right to it individuality and identity.
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Another important quote about above containing emotive language.
"The misery with them all was clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever." Notice Dickens's use of the abstract noun "power" rather than the abstract noun "ability". Also note the irony - they
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(at least Marley's Ghost) have not totally lost the power - it is Marley Ghost who "interfere(s)" in Scrooge's "affairs for good".
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