Christimas Carol Theme And quotes

Theme : Greed

• Mankind was my business.

• I wear the chain I forged in life

• Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!"

Theme : Loneliness

• Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner."

• A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."

• "Spirit," he said, "remove me from this place. I cannot bear it.

Theme : Redemption

• I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

• Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!

• A merry Christmas to everybody!

Theme : Poverty

• hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.

• If they would rather die... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

• The clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.

Theme : Family and Relationship

• Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven

• Will you let me in, Fred?

• I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time