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A Christmas Carol Quotes - Coggle Diagram
A Christmas Carol Quotes
Scrooge
'Solitary as an oyster' - oyster suggests that he is hard and cold on the outside, but has good on the inside
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"Are there no prisons...workhouses?" - in his eyes, the poor do not need help as the prisons and workhouses can feed them
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"If they would rather die", said scrooge ,"they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population" - shows he doesn't care about anyone
Marley
'Marley was dead; to begin with' - Dickens made sure the readers know there is something of the supernatural
"I wear the chains i forged in life" - carrying the weight of all the evil he had done, trying to scare Scrooge into change
"It is a ponderous chain" - Marley is trying to warn / scare Scrooge that the chain he will have to carry is getting heavier.
"I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate" - he is telling Scrooge that he still has time to change before he ends up like Marley
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