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“solitary as an oyster” |
shows us that he is lonely and doesn’t like/want to communicate with anyone due to his upbringing and past. also it foreshadows that he can change and turn himself into good due to oysters containing pearls. |
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“i can’t afford to make idle people merry” |
scrooge refusing to give to charity. use of the word ‘idle’ implies that it is their fault due to their own actions. this was the victorian times attitude to the poor. scrooge making out they’re lazy. |
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“the boy is ignorance, most of all beware the boy” |
metaphor. represents victorian society brilliantly. 2 children ignorance and want represent the victorians attitude to the poor. dickens considers ignorance as worst as it can lead to want and also hatred. |
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“no warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him” |
pathetic fallacy- scrooge is a cold-hearted man and the change in weather doesn’t effect him. he does not love anyone. suggests he is cold and distant from the society of victorian times. |
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“decrease the surplus population” |
that the poor are useless and practically deserve to die to reduce the population of the world as they add nothing to the world. dickens is making out that they do not deserve to live however his main objective of the novella is to promote the feeling that the poor should have a chance to live. context shows that the poor were highly not thought of and neglected. |
