Name that Character
is declared DEAD by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker and his business partner, Ebeneezer Scrooge.
Jacob Marley
"He fixes his evening gruel on the hob"
He puts his evening meal (dinner) on the fireplace to warm up.
What 4 scenes does Christmas Past show Scrooge on their journey?
1. Scrooge alone at school as a child
2. Scrooge allowed to come home with Fan
3. Scrooge at Fezziwig's Party
4. Scrooge at his counting house being broken up with by the love of his life
in ACT II Scene 4 (when Scrooge is nearing the end of his with Christmas Present, and sees Want and Ignorance) What line forced Scrooge to reflect on his own cruelty ?
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? If they should die they better do it then, decrease the surplus population!"
Scrooge says all of these things when he is asked for donations to help the poor. He argues that if they are poor, they should be sent to prison or a workhouse (where they could be worked to death). Then after Thin man says "Many would rather die than go there," Scrooge says they should then, to decrease the amount of people in London.
asks Scrooge for donations to the poor and was shocked by his cruel response. Later receives a donation from Scrooge that is surprising.
Portly man and Thin Man
“I see a vacant seat . . . in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner.....If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.”
If Scrooge doesn't change his ways, Tiny Tim will die.
In Act 1 Scene 2, Why does Marley come to Scrooge?
He comes to Scrooge as a warning for what is to come if he doesn't change his ways. He also warns him that three ghosts are going to come to Scrooge to help him fix his life.
What is Scrooge's first reactions to seeing the Cratchit Family?
He makes a comment about how little Cratchit gets paid and how foolish he is for having so many children.
“There’s more of gravy than of grave about you.”
Scrooge says this as a joke when he is attempting to deny that Marley is real. He tries to argue that he ate something bad, and that is why he is imagining his deceased friend is in front of him.
sits upon this throne of meats and Christmas feasts, "glorious to see. He bears a torch, shaped as a Horn of Plenty". He wears a simple green robe with "an ancient scabbard girdling [his] middle, but without sword. The sheath is gone to rust."
The Ghost of Christmas Present
Woman: Our contract is an old one. It was made when we were both poor and content to be so. You are changed. When it was made, you were another man.
Adult Scrooge: I was not another man: I was a boy.
Woman: Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are. I am. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart is fraught with misery now that we are two . . . How often and how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say. It is enough that I have thought of it, and can release you . . .
In this part, Scrooge's girlfriend/ fiance is breaking up with him. She says that when they got together, they were poor and happy and didn't mind. Now he has changed and loves money more than her and though she is sad by it, she has to break off their relationship.
How does Fezziwig's party force Scrooge to reflect on his own business and employees?
Fezziwig's party was so fun and made so many people happy despite the amount of money he had to pay for the food and fun. He sees how happy it made his previous self and realizes that he should treat Cratchit better.
In Act 2 Scene 3, Why does Christmas Present take Scrooge to see the Cratchit's Family dinner?
1. To show him that even though they are not rich or special, they are so happy and grateful with their lives and their family
2. To show him how he impacts other people's lives
"Spirit, this is a fearful place. In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me. Let us go!"
Scrooge is terrified watching Mrs Dilbler, Old Joe and the woman go through his possessions and mock him after his death. Then he is forced to look at his own dead body and begs Christmas future to leave! He promises he will remember the lessons he has learned
_______ is described both as "England's most tightfisted hand at the grindstone.. a squeezing, wrenching..covetous old sinner" and is later described as "As good a friend, as good a master, as good a man as the good old city knew"
Ebeneezer Scrooge
Present: You have never seen the like of me before?
Scrooge: Never.
Present: You have never walked forth with younger members of my family: my elder brothers born on Christmases past.
Scrooge: I don’t think I have. I’m afraid I’ve not. Have you had many brothers, Spirit?
Present: More than eighteen hundred.
Why does Marley haunt the earth after his death with chains around his neck?
He never did anything in his life but make money, and so is forced to haunt their offices for the rest of his existence. His chain is made of all the bad things he has done in his life, made link by link through the years.
In Act II, Scene 4, of A Christmas Carol, what does the Ghost of Christmas Future do that gives Scrooge hope?
He stops pointing at the gravestone and disappears.
To Christmas Present: “If you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.”
This is when Scrooge is asking to be taken with the Ghost and is willing to learn something from where he is being taken.
looks like "a child, yet at the same time like an old man: white hair, but unwrinkled skin, long muscular arms, but delicate legs and feet. Wears a white tunic, lustrous belt cinches the waist. Branch of fresh green holly in its hand"
The Ghost of Christmas Past
PRESENT: They are Man’s children, and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. The boy is Ignorance; the girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for I see that written on his brow which is doom, unless the writing be erased.
These are the children of human greed and desire. The boy is Ignorance and the girl is Want. Remember them and be aware of your own ignorance because it will bring you to your worst, unless you choose to change.
Boy: [Singing] “Away in a manger . . .” [Scrooge seizes his ruler and whacks at the image of the Boy outside. The Boy leaves.]
This is an example of DIRECT or Indirect characterization? & How do you know?
Indirect because the narrator is showing us through Scrooge's actions, that he is mean and miserable when he scares away the boy singing
27. What does Fred (the Nephew) and Bob Cratchit's toasts to Scrooge In ACT II Scene 3&4 reveal to Scrooge?
It shows him that he is disliked, but valued by others. He also realized that other people are much kinder and more forgiving of him and his actions than he realized.
"I am light as a feather, I am happy as an angel. I am as merry as a schoolboy. [Yells out window and then out to audience] Merry Christmas to everybody! Merry Christmas to everybody! A Happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Whoop! Hallo! Hallo! I don’t know what day of the month it is! I don’t care! I don’t know anything! I’m quite a baby! I don’t care! I don’t care a fig! I’d much rather be a baby in time’s penultimate nick just at the last moment than be an old wreck like me or Marley! (Sorry, Jacob. wherever ye be!) Hallo! Hallo there!
This is the moment in which Scrooge realizes that it is still Christmas ans he has the chance to change everything and he is SO excited to do so. He is cheering and yelling in joy to anyone that will hear him. He says he feels brand new like a baby and would rather feel this way than he did before.