A Christmas Carol Key Quotes

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“There was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something that’s all”

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“There was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something that’s all”

  • Redemption

  • Starting to change from beginning

  • Regret

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“I am not the man I was”

  • Redemption

  • Has become a different person

  • Asking for forgiveness

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“I’m a light as a feather”

  • Contrast to the beginning of the play

  • He has been redeemed

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"I’m as merry as a schoolboy”

  • He has been redeemed

  • He has stopped supressing his childhood

  • He feels all the joy he felt when he was a child

    —> reference to beginning of play

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‘‘As solitary as an oyster’’

  • He is alone

  • He has a hard outer shell but is still good inside

  • Stave 1

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‘‘Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’’

  • Not charitable

  • Won’t let any money go

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‘‘If they would rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’’

  • No regard for the poor

  • No responsibility

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