a christmas carol

supernatural

• ‘link by link, yard by yard’

• ‘mankind is my business

• ‘i will live in the Past, Present and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me’

• ‘solitary as an oyster’

• ‘the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled’

• ‘it was a strange figure’

• ‘ignorance’ and ‘want’

• ‘man’s’ and ‘doom’

• ‘yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish’

• ‘it is a foot or a claw’

poverty

• ‘are there no workhouses, are there no prisons’

• ‘if they’d rather die, they had better do it and decrease the Surplus population

• ‘what right do you have to be merry’

• ‘as good as gold’

• ‘yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish’

• ‘brave in ribbons’

• ‘no one said or thought it was a small pudding for a large family, it would be flat heresy to do so’

inequality

• ‘are there no prisons, are there no union workhouses’

• if they’d rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

• ‘the clerk’s fire was so very much that it looked like one coal’

• ‘in a dismal little cell… sort of tank’

• the boy is ignorance, the girl is want. beware of them both’

• ‘is it a foot or a claw’

• it’s a judgment on him’

• ‘unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man’

redemption*

• ‘are there no workhouses, are there no union prisons’

• ‘if they’d rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’

• ‘great many back-payments’*

• ‘he was a second father’

• ‘he went to church’

• ‘make up the fires and buy another coal scuttle’

• ‘cold, bleaking, biting’

• ‘clear, bright jovial’

• ‘i will honour the past, present and the future. the spirits of all three shall strive within me’

• ‘the shadows the the things that would have been, may be dispelled

• ‘it was a strange figure’

generosity*

• ‘are there no workhouses, are there no prisons’

• ‘if they’d rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population’

• ‘great many back payments’

• ‘he went to church’

• ‘

christmas

• upon christmas day, which made lame beggars walk, and blind men see’

• bah humbug

• ‘i will honour christmas with my heart, and try to keep it all year’

• ‘what right do you have to be merry’

• ‘he was a second father'

family

• ‘brave in ribbons’

• ‘as good as gold’

• ‘no one said or thought it was a small pudding for a large family… it would’ve been flat heresy to do so’

• ‘upon christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see’

• he was a second father

• ‘are there no workhouses are there no prisons’

• ‘i want nothing of you; i ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends’

• ‘i mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not’

• but what did scrooge care, it was the very thing he liked’

• another idol has displaced me , a golden one

• i have seen your noble aspirations fall off one by one’

• 'in came mrs fezziwig, with one vast substantial smile

• yo ho my boys, no more work tonight

• the happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune’

repentance

joy

isolation

moral responsibility