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suspense and fear (theme) (("the phantom slowly, gravely, silently…
suspense and fear (theme)
"eyes wide open, they were perfectly motionless"
implication of death and lifelessness
sinister atmosphere exaggerates fear to an almost hyperbolic effect
"the sound resounded trough the house like thunder"
simile used to convey the volume of noise
patheticfallacy suggests to the reader scrooges motions of feat and suspense
evocative to the reader causes them to become fearful
"the spectre raised a cry and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands"
trapped forever in agonising pain which he can never escape.
forced into loneliness and isolation and unbearable suffering
unremovable chains reflect his unforgivable actions from his previous life.
connotations of death and mourning
coaxes audiences out of unphilanthropic behaviours and actions
"to correct this most preposterous clock.Its rapid little pulse beat twelve and stopped"
reflects a sense of tension and suspense into the reader
use of personification suggests the level of fear throughout the house as even inanimate objects are fearful
connations of lifelessness and death
could foreshadow a change of heart "correct" and "pulse"
foreshadows paranormal activity
"two children; wretched abject frightful hideous miserable....yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish"
asyndetic lists and anthropomorphism
suggests people to be monstrous and beastly, common misconception of the Victorian poor
"the phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached...The very air through which this spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery."
semantic field of death
cluster of 3/ asyndetic list
presents the ghost to be sinister and melancholy
darkness and ambiguity
suggests fear of the unknown and inevitable death
foreboding silence cases him to seem most frightening and sinister of the spirits
"shrouded in a deep black garment which concealed its head"
anonymity and unidentifiable
black leads to a semantic field of despair and death
"announced itself in awful language ….plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man"
cluster of 3
asyndetic list
no one grieves for him so his own dead body grieves
grieves his unforgivable actions in the afterlife
emphasis on the loneliness and isolation that the corpse died in
sense of ambiguity