Romeo And Juliet; A Christmas Carol Quotes

Front 1

Romeo

'O,I am fortune's fool'

Back 1

Fate

When Romeo rashly kills Tybalt, in revenge he realises he has behaved stupidly and has lost control over his destiny.

After avenging Mercutio's death, Romeo realises too late that Tybalt's death will make it impossible for him to be open about marriage to Juliet.

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Romeo

'She doth teach the lights to burn bright'

Back 2

Love

Romeo came to the Capulet ball to see Rosaline but the beauty of Juliet outshines every girl there. The lovers first meeting reveals how they are instantly attracted to one another and shows how his love for Rosaline was courtly.

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Juliet

'Methinks I see ... so low... as one dead in the bottom of a tube'

Back 3

Death

As Romeo leaves Juliet the morning after they spent the night together, juliet foreshadows his death suggesting fate is working against them.

Front 4

Mercutio

'Why the devil came you ... I was hurt under your arm'

Back 4

Fate

Mercutio acts as a catalyst as before he dies he tells Romeo that he was responsible for the injury, thereby forcing Romeo into action.

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Mercutio

'A plague O'both your houses'

Back 5

Fate

Mercutio leaves the stage, uttering the haunting curse. Acurse is to be soon carried out and his death puts an end to there ever being a change of reuniting both families.

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The Nurse

'Go girl. Seek happy nights to happy days'

Back 6

Love

The nurse is no prude, she knows that Juliet will enjoy the physical side of marriage. Much of her laguage contains sexual banter and innuendo suggesting she has a closer relationshipto juliet because of her language.

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Lady Capulet

'Ladies of esteem ... already mothers ... I was your mother upon these years'

Back 7

Marriage

Lady Capulet views juliets marriage as a kind of business transaction rather than a love relationship and feels that upperclass woman should be married young.

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Lord Capulet

'Death is my son-in law'

Back 8

Death

Lord capulet uses personification as though death were a person who visited Juliet in the night. There is irony here as as the end of the play it is both Romeo and juliet in the tomb; Romeo being his new son-in law.

Front 9

Scrooge

'Hard and sharp as flint'

Back 9

Simile

Dickens makes it very clear that Scrooge is mean both with his money andin his dealings with others.

'Hard sharp as flint' suggests his ability to hurt others.

Front 10

Scrooge

'Solitary as an oyster'

Back 10

Simile

The oyster is in a hard,sharp and dangerous shell but contains the potential of a pearl. Dickens uses imagery to show scrooges heart at the beginning of the novella.

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Scrooge

'His own heart laughed'

Back 11

Dickens uses imagery to show Scrooge's transformation. His focus of Scrooge's change of heart at the end of the novella suggests to us that the oyster that was scrooge at the start of the novella did contain a pearl and that is the transformed scrooge.

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Fezziwig's Christmas Party

'Full of gratitude'

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The Cratchit's

'He loved the child and wished to keep him by his side'

Back 13

Dickens presentation of Bob as the loving caring father contrasts to the relationship Scrooge had with his father.

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Young Fan

'Father is so much kinder than he used to be'

Back 14

Dickens does not ever show us Scrooge's father, but merely makes fan refer to him leaving us to figure out what might have happened. This emphasises his absence from scrooges childhood, something dickens also experienced as a child.

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The Cratchit's

Brave in ribbons'

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Poverty

Mrs Crathit's ribbons may be a luxury but are also a symbol of her deperation to make her dress look new and respectable.

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Narrator

'A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire'

'As good a man, as the good old city knew'

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Isolation

Left to himself as a boy, Scrooge finds companionship in stories but as an adult he focuses on making money. Scrooge has chaged from the beginning of the novella to the end, not just because of helping the poor; as a result he is rejoining society.

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Last Spirit

'Yellow, meagre...wolfish'

'Beware', 'Doom'

Back 17

Education

Dickens emphasises the value of education through his presentation of the two children , Ignorance and want. They are horrific in their appearance. They serve to illustrate dickens belief in the power and need for education .we are also told to 'beware' ignorance for he is 'doom' . He uses emotive language to show the seriosuess of the issue... role of education in the fight against poverty.

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Fred

'Think of the people below them'

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Responsibility

Fred suggests that christmas is a time of giving and not havimg a 'tight hold' of your money as scrooge has. He does this to remind the reader of the less fortunate ones.

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Marley

'Mankind was my business'

Back 19

Responsibility

Dickens makes marley's ghost succinctly convey the whole message of the novella ... we learn that the proper business of lie isnt about financial reward but having concern about others.

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Scrooge

'What's Christmas ... and not an hour richer'

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ChangeBy emphasising Scrooge's initial extreme attitudes and rejection of anything that does not make him money, Dickens shows there is hope for all of us. Ie in the preference Dickens tells us that he wants us to accept his message and change our own attitudes too.