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A Christmas Carol - Stave 2 - Coggle Diagram
A Christmas Carol - Stave 2
1: The Ghost of Christmas Past
'from the crown of its head there sprung a light'
The light symbolises the enlightenment that the ghost will bring to Scrooge.
'like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man'
the figure of the ghost is made up of moments of his childhood and his adulthood
2: They re-visit Scrooge's Childhood
'wept to see his poor forgotten self'
We now start feeling sorry for as we see him remembering his old memories
As Scrooge revisits the scenes of his childhood he is presented as moved.
This is the start of his transformation
'There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something'
This shows Scrooge changing as he is now willing to give to charity
'It opened; and a little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her `Dear, dear brother.' '
This is Scrooge's sister showing there relationship.
3: Fezziwig's Party
Fezziwig
Fezziwig is the opposite of Scrooge
'He rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself, from his shows to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice: `Yo ho, there. Ebenezer. Dick.' '
Fezziwig is a joyful character
'Shaking hands with every person individually, wished him or her a Merry Christmas'
Scrooge was worked at Fezziwig's when he was younger.
4: Scrooge's break up with Belle
'another idol has displaced me. ... A golden one.'
Greed / Change
This is Belle, Scrooge's fiancée, she uses his avarice as a reason for the two of them to not marry each other. She uses the metaphorical noun 'idol' to suggest that Scrooge now worships money.
'I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.'
Greed
Dickens extends the tree metaphor through Belle's dialogue; Scrooge's 'nobler' qualities have fallen like leaves from a tree, until it is barren. The personification 'Gain' or greed, highlights that Scrooge's raison d'etre is now solely money; it is as though he has been possessed by an evil deity and nothing else now matters, including his fiancée.
'This is the even-handed dealing of the world. ... Nothing on it is so hard as poverty ... nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth.'
Greed / Poverty
Dickens provides confirmation as to why Scrooge is obsessed with money: he wants to avoid a life of poverty 'there is nothing on it so hard as poverty.' This suggest that it is Scrooge's fear of being poor that motivates his greed.'
'Would you seek me out and try and win me now? ... Can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl - you who in your very confidence with her weigh everything by Gain.'
Belle cites the reasons for their break-up as the greed that Scrooge now possesses. She believes that he measures every relationship by money. Scrooge does not argue against this and he loses his lover in the process.
5: Scrooge extinguishes the ghost of Christmas past
'seizes the cap'
This shows that they have become too powerful
'burning high and bright'
the light of the ghost cannot be suppresed
The enlightenment that the ghost brings cannot be avoided
symbolic
4.5: Belle's life after Scrooge
Scrooge witnesses the life he could of had
The husband says that he saw Scrooge
"Spirt" said Scrooge ... "Remove me"
Scrooge is demanding that he go back to his room.
We may feel a bit of sympathy