Ullathorne A Christmas Carol Quotations

“Oh! Scrooge was a selfish old sinner!”

Which analysis is better?

• The reader is drawn to this statement by the exclamation “Oh!”

  The noun “sinner” shows that Scrooge’s behaviour is the opposite to Christ’s teaching.

• An audience would enjoy the narrator's negative description of the evil scrooge, as shown by the adjective "old"

“He carried his own low temperature … around with him.”

• This metaphor is used to show how Scrooge wants to change

• This simile conveys a feeling of desperation and injustice

• This Metaphor emphasises how unemotional and

  unfeeling Scrooge is.

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge.”

Why is sentence structure important here?

• The metaphor conveys how mean Scrooge is

• Dickens creates emphasis by putting Scrooge's name at the end of the sentence

• The structure is a very long sentence to show the reader that Dickens disliked Scrooge

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge.”

• The Metaphor shows that Scrooge was hard and unfeeling. He ground people down, especially Bob Cratchit

• The simile shows that Scrooge was hard and unfeeling. He ground people down, especially Bob Cratchit

• The personification shows that Scrooge was hard and unfeeling. He ground people down, especially Bob Cratchit

“Hard and sharp as flint”

• The metaphor suggests that he is intelligent but unrelenting and harsh

• The simile suggests that he uses physical violence to get his own way

• The simile is used to suggest that he is intelligent but unrelenting and harsh

"“Fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and a family at Christmas…

Humbug!”

• Dickens is telling people not to get married and have children if they can't afford them

• Dickens is criticising the employers who did not pay their workers enough to survive

• Dickens is telling his readers not to spend money at Christmas

“A lonely child, neglected by his friends, is still there.”

• Dickens is showing that Scrooge should have been a better person when he was younger as this affects our future

• Dickens is showing that Scrooge deserves everything he gets

• Dickens is showing that our past affects our present. Scrooge associates Christmas with sadness and loneliness

“foggier yet, and colder! Piercing, searching, biting cold.”

• Pathetic Fallacy

  This could also

  apply to Scrooge’s

  character

• Pathetic Fallacy. This emphasises Scrooge keeping down energy bills

• This symbolises Scrooge's search for more wealth

What might the FOG symbolise?

• It symbolises how Scrooge always hiding his anger from people

• The fog symbolises that Scrooge cannot see the right way to live his life.

• The white fog symbolises Scrooge's white hair

Historical Context.In the 19th Century winters were especially hard. Much more severe than now! Fog and smoke mixed to cause smog which was very thick.

• True

• False

• No one knows