AIC whole play quotes to themes

look at quotes and analyse them.

“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail”

stave 1: death.

“You will therefore permit me to repeat emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail”

stave 1: comic, third person narration

“Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.”

Stave 1: comic. assertive

“Scrooge never painted out old Marley’s name”

Stave 1: scrooge is stuck in his own ways

“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!”

Stave 1: misanthopic

“a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”

Stave 1: misanthropic

“as solitary as an oyster.”

Stave 1: lonely with potential

“he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.

Stave 1: cold

“No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle,”

Stave 1: hyperbole that even the poorest people wanted his help

“‘No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!‘“

Stave 1: shows that even the dogs cant stand scrooge

“who in a very dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank,”

Stave 1:shows the conditions that the clerk had to live in

“the clerks fire was so small it looked like one coal. But he couldn’t replenish it,”

Stave 1: shows the neglect by the scarcity of coal

“that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.”

Stave 1:contrast with positive warm description

“What right do you have to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”

Stave 1: scrooge’s only concern is money

“What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.”

“should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”

“keep Christmas in you won way and let me keep it in mine.”

“The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded:”

“Don’t be angry uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.”

“My clerk with 15 shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking abut a merry Christmas. I’ll retire to Bedlam”

“Are there no prisons?” / “And the Union workhouses” / “"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour then?”

“they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”

“misanthropic ice”

“The lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor’s household should”