English Literature - Quotes - Christmas Carol

REVISION FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE

CHRISTMAS CAROL

KEY QUOTES

• 'Marley was as dead as a doornail'
  • foreshadowing
  • supernatural
• 'Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name'
  • not willing to change

• 'a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner'
  • list
  • alliteration
  • redemption
  • chapter 1
• 'hard and sharp as a flint'
  • his ability to hurt others
  • he is mean both with his money and in his dealings with others
• 'Bah! Humbug!'
  • stubborn
  • stuck in his own ways
• 'What right have you to be merry'

• Anyone who goes around saying Merry Christmas 'on their lips  should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'
• 'solitary as an oyster'
  • stubborn
  • isolation
  • pear inside
• 'good afternoon'
  • rude
  • arrogant

• At the end on the novel - 'Merry Christmas, Bob' | 'I'll raise you salary' | 'Hallo, my fine fellow!' | 'I'll send it to Bob Cratchit' (the turkey as big as the boy).
  • changed man
  • happy
  • kind
  • helps Tiny Tim - saves him etc.
• 'I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year'
  • change
  • moral of story

• he describes christmas as 'a good time; a kind, forgiving charitable, pleasant time'
  • his is the mouthpiece for Dicken's views about Christmas
  • eloquence and confidence make him attractive and make his ideas seem logical
• 'Let him in! It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off'
  • accepts the chaged Scrooge without question
  • suggests Fred always suspected there was good in Scrooge and he welcoms it.
• 'Don't be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tommorow.'
  • jolly
  • trying to make his uncle happle and dine with them

• He is described 'with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat)'
  • he is little more than a caricature
  • he is a humorous figure but also shows how many people had to live without items we would regard as necessities, such as an outdoor coat.
• 'The Founder of the Feast'
  • he is good natured
  • Scrooge doesn't pay him enough but Bob still does what he considers to be the right thing even though Scrroge would never know or care.
• 'He was reconciled to what had happened'
  • he doesn't try to fight life's problems
  • the death of children was commonplace and Bob always knew he didn't have the means to protect Tim.

• ''God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.''
  • suffering but still happy
• he sings 'Silent night' 
• kind
• disabled
• thoughtful

• 'like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man'
  • supernatural
  • no secrets
• 'rise and walk with me'
  • showing Scrooges past
  • how unking he has been
• 'from the crown of its head there sprung a clear, bright, jet of light'
  • supernatural
  • ghoslty
• Scrooge says, 'No more! ... No more! I don't wish to see it. Show me no more!'
  • regret
  • pain suffering

• showed Scrooge Fezziwigs's party
  • happy
  • enthusiastic
• showed Scrooge breaking off her engagement from Belle to him as she realises he loves money move than her

• Mrs Cratchit says, 'The Founder of the Feast indeed!' cried Mrs Cratchit redddening. 'I wish i has him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon and I hopw he'd have a good appetite for it''
  • what scrooge is doing to the poor
  • upset
  • poor
• 'His heart and soul were in the scene, and with his former self'
  • redemption
  • memory
• show him how Tiny Tim will died if he doesn't change
• show him how everyone is celebrating christmas
• vists Fred's Christmas celebrating.
  • music
  • happy
  • jolly
  • with others

• 'read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE'
  • sees his future if he doesn't change
• doesn't speak, he points
• take him to the Cratchits and Tiny Tim has died
  • sorrow
• shows thieves gloating over goods they have stolen from a dead man