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A Christmas Carol, Themes - Coggle Diagram
A Christmas Carol
Characters
Fred - Nephew of scroogey,
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Bob cratchit - Dickens depicts him as a loving father and husband, which could be interpreted as an idealisation of the lower class. Despite his poor wages and cruel employer, Bob Cratchit remains grateful and compassionate, celebrating Christmas in a way that the significantly richer Scrooge never could.
Key Quotes
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"If they would rather die, then they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
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Scrooge does not think of the lower class as humans, but more like pests.
"Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light that i give?"
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Themes
Time is a main theme too, it shows how a person is able to change overnight with something as simple as a thought towards the other people in the world
Past, present, future ghosts
Redemption is the idea of being saved from sin or evil, scrooge is a miserable old miser who is saved from his ways by the various ghosts that visit him. ( you pussy )
Forgiveness. Scrooge is forgiven by everyone around him and his family. This would not have been an easy task considering how much of a bastard he was.
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When Scrooge goes back to where he got his apprenticeship, everyone is partying and joyous.
Belle says another idol has replaced her, signifying money is more important to Scrroge than she was even in the earlier years of his life.
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change. scrooge seeing his grave and now hanging off a branch falling into his crimson coffin. imposing terror in this case is the final key to making scrooge change his ways and morals
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