Quotes

key quotes to help with writing

“I wear the chains I forged in life”

ACC Marley- this shows his regret of how he lived. chains= stuck and continuous link- unescapable. he wears his consequences of his actions in life, "forged" shows prolonged outcome, not a quick doing and extended behaviour.

“Merry as a school boy.”

ACC Ebeenezer- direct link to joy, happiness and innocence, could also contrast to scroooge4 as a school boy as previously described as neglected.

“God bless us, everyone.”

ACC Tim- link to religon and equality for everyone to be blessed, coming from tiny Tim and a child is a sign of innocence and purity that is reflected to everyone else.

“I cant afford to make idle people merry.”

ACC ebeenezer- ironic as he can afford it, but his emotional bank cant afford to engage with others nd attachment?, idle= lazy. could also refer to for people as his perception of them. deprived of the merry=joy, just as he is. he is more deserving of the merry= joy than the poor people are.

• "the cold within him froze his old features."

ACC- scrooge- shows: reinforcement of the cold linking to scrooge and his personality

• "a squeeing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"

ACC-scrooge-

shows: parallels the seven sins, worst sins people could commit. (seven ad jectives-sins). sounds harsh and descriptive. From the beginning we see he almost deserving of his eternal punishment

• Alternative analysis: words connote a struggle (grasping, clutching etc), infers that scrooge struggles to fit In to society and understand the struggles of the poor.

"External heat and cold had little influence on him."

ACC-scrooge- Shows: nothing could alter or effect him.

“To that I say fiddlesticks.”

AIC- mr billing- he is dissmissive of anyone but his own opinion and thinks it to be nonsense. ironic.

“like bees in a hive.”

AIC-mr birling- referring to the lower class, criticising them for how the look after eachother, how they are all the same. when actually, bees provide honey for humans. bees= lower class, birling= higher. the bees Mae what the people cannot. this is ironic and shows the upmost disgust towards the lower class.

“unsinkable, absolutloey unsinkable.”

AIC-mr birling- ironic and shows his opinion from am early stage in the playwith defiantly not always be correct.

“you were jealous.”

AIC- inspector to sheila- shows that sheila had some tak e4part in Evas death, but emotionally was uspet with her. sybil was impressed by Evas looks but not so much Sheilas. the inspector points this out to Sheila because she has already realised what she has done, but is no fully aware of why.