Change/ Redemption:
● ‘Are there no prisons?’ , ‘And the Union workhouses?’ VS ‘Have they no refuge or resource?’
● ‘Pimple’ - in Stave 1 VS ‘wet with tears’
● ‘Why did his cold eye glisten?’
● ‘I was a boy here’ , ‘with fervour’ - foreshadowing his epiphany in stave 5 when Scrooge cried, ‘I am as
light as a feather, I am as merry as a schoolboy.’
● ‘Feeble fire’
● ‘Exclaimed in ecstasy’
● ‘Earnestness of his nature’
● ‘Most extraordinary voice’
● ‘Rapidity of transition’ , ‘underwent the strangest agitation’
● ‘in pity’ , ‘but it’s too late now’ , ‘I should like to have given him something: that’s all’ , ‘I should like to be
able to say a word or two to my clerk just now.’
● ‘Bless his heart’
● ‘No more work tonight’ Vs ‘You’ll want all day tomorrow, I suppose?’
● ‘His former self’ , ‘I learned a lesson which is working now’ , ‘let me profit by it’
● ‘Overcome with penitence and grief’
● ‘I hope to live to be another man from what I was.’
● ‘Do it with a thankful heart’
● ‘Newborn resolutions’ - Scrooge’s new start is further emphasised by his statement of ‘I’m quite a baby.’
● ‘I am not the man I was.’ , ‘an altered life’
● ‘Scrooge was better than his word.’
● ‘Solitary as an oyster’
➔ Fezziwig VS Scrooge
➔ Fred VS Scrooge - same with beginning ‘solitary as an oyster’ , cold, apathetic
➔ ‘There’s more gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are’ - humorous (2 dimensional character)
Even though he’s ‘waggish’ , he is used to being entertaining and witty. Which can be seen as
Fezziwig. LINKING!!!!!!
Poverty:
● ‘White comforter’
● ‘Poorly furnished, cold, and vast’
● ‘There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty’
● ‘Such severity as the pursuit of wealth’
● ‘We were both poor’
● ‘A golden one’ - highlights the changing demographic of class during the Victorian era. The Great
Reform Bill of 1832 gave middle class property owners the vote for the first time, so these people
became influential in society and this can be seen through the value placed on money by Scrooge.
● ‘Brave in ribbons’ , ‘gallantly attired’ , ‘eked out with apple sauce’ - despite being poor, the Cratchits
show their gratefulness of having their little food and yet still ponder in ‘luxurious thoughts’
● ‘We’d a deal of work to finish up last night,’ - Dickens highlights the plight of the poor having to send
their young children out for labour in order to contribute to the family purse. This would have been out
of necessity, rather than a desire for the parents. As such, the Victorian era symbolised the generation
of loss youth.
● ‘Active little crutch’
● ‘Feathered phenomenon’ , ‘the biggest turkey’ , ‘universal admiration’, ‘greatest success’
● ‘Unseemly rags’ , ‘sepulchres of bones’
● ‘ “And took a child, and set him in the midst of them.” ’
Scrooge:
