A Christmas Carol Key Quotes

“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

“I am not the man I was”

• Redemption

• Has become a different person

• Asking for forgiveness

“I’m a light as a feather”

• Contrast to the beginning of the play

• He has been redeemed

"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

‘‘As solitary as an oyster’’

• He is alone

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

• Stave 1

‘‘Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’’

• Not charitable

• Won’t let any money go

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

• No regard for the poor

• No responsibility