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13 Cards in this Set
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A miserable, bitter old sinner, Scrooge hate irrational things like happiness, generosity and Christmas. |
About- scrooge |
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Bah humbug |
Scrooge |
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“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” |
Narrator |
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“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!" |
Scrooge |
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“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!" |
Scrooge to the Ghost of Jacob Marley |
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‘’No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.’’ |
Marley’s ghost to Scrooge |
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“What! Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?” |
“What! Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?” |
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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.’’ |
Scrooge |
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‘’I don't know what to do! I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!” |
Scrooge |
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God bless Us, Every One! |
Tiny Tim |
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The poor law act in 1834 which established the workhouses |
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Where Written: Manchester and LondonLiterary Period: Victorian EraGenre: Social Commentary, Ghost StorySetting: LondonClimax: Scrooge realizes that he will die alone and unloved if he carries on treating people the way he does. The sight of Christmas Yet to Come awakens his sense of remorse and he is desperate to change his fate |
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Point of View: A third-person, omniscient narrator |
