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Summary A Christmas Carol key quotes
key quotes from every stave and for each character - also includes the themes for the novel and the context of A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas carol:stave 1
Scrooge: Marley:
- Solitary as an oyster - Mankind was my business
- External heat and cold had little influence on scrooge - I am here tonight to warn you that you
- If they would rather die – they had better do it and have yet chance and hope of escaping my
decrease the surplus population fate
- Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? - Of cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers,
- Tight-fisted hand at the grind stone: he was greedy deeds and heavy purses wrought of steel
over money - I cannot rest, i cannot stay, i cannot linger
- A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, anywhere
covetous old sinner - Condemned to do so after death
- Hard and sharp as flint - Not to know the ages of incessant labour,
- No wind that blew bitterer than him by immoral creatures
- What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor
enough’
Fred:
- I cant afford to make idle people merry
- Darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it - That he was all in glow, his face was
ruddy and handsome, his eyes sparkled
- I want nothing from you, i ask nothing
Scrooge: from you, why cannot we be friends?
- Quite alone in the world i do believe - When men and women seem by one
- Eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye consent to open their shut up hearts
- Wear the signs of care and avarice freely
- Your lip is trembling
- a solitary child , neglected by his friends is left there Belle:
still - Another idol has displaced me, a golden one
- his poor forgotten self as he used to be - I have seen your nobler aspirations fall of one
- showed the passion had taken root and where the by one, until he master passion, gain, engrosses
shadow of the growing tree would fall you
- why do you delight to torture me? - When we were one in heart if fraught with
- During this whole time scrooge had acted like a misery now
man out of his wits - In whose eyes there were tears, which sparkled
- You are quite a woman little fan in the light
- Spirit show me no more
stave 2:
stave 3:
- There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town and yet was there an air of
cheerfulness abroad
- There was never such a goose, bob said he didn’t believe there ever was such a goose
cooked – bob
- There’s such a goose – feathered phenomenon
- If these shadows remain unaltered by the future the child will die
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