Stave 1--Dismal
Gray seemed to shroud the entire section of this story, hanging low like the mist over England. Although bleakness is not the main theme in A Christmas Carol, it is certainly present and important. As evidenced by the author’s word choice when he was adding description to the Christmas Eve night: it was cold, bleak, biting weather, and he could hear the people in the court outside….candles were flaring in windows of the windows of the neighboring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air….to see the dingy cloud come drooping down obscuring everything…. Additional evidence is used when Dickens outlines Scrooge’s house: They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard….that one could scarcely help fancying that it must have run there when it was a young house….and had forgotten the way out again….the yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands….
There is, of course more from the text about this theme, but I think this is enough. Greed is also a prominent theme in this story, but this underlies it.
Stave 2--Regret Prominence this theme has, along with …show more content…
Therefore, Scrooge has no idea what Bob Cratchit and his family do for the holidays, and finds it touching that some people who have so little have such a good time, as evidenced by the second paragraph on page 52: there was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well-dressed….their clothes were scanty….but they were happy, grateful, and pleased with one another and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit’s torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them….until the
Gray seemed to shroud the entire section of this story, hanging low like the mist over England. Although bleakness is not the main theme in A Christmas Carol, it is certainly present and important. As evidenced by the author’s word choice when he was adding description to the Christmas Eve night: it was cold, bleak, biting weather, and he could hear the people in the court outside….candles were flaring in windows of the windows of the neighboring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air….to see the dingy cloud come drooping down obscuring everything…. Additional evidence is used when Dickens outlines Scrooge’s house: They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard….that one could scarcely help fancying that it must have run there when it was a young house….and had forgotten the way out again….the yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands….
There is, of course more from the text about this theme, but I think this is enough. Greed is also a prominent theme in this story, but this underlies it.
Stave 2--Regret Prominence this theme has, along with …show more content…
Therefore, Scrooge has no idea what Bob Cratchit and his family do for the holidays, and finds it touching that some people who have so little have such a good time, as evidenced by the second paragraph on page 52: there was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well-dressed….their clothes were scanty….but they were happy, grateful, and pleased with one another and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit’s torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them….until the