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Key characters:
Scrooge - the miserly business man who cares more for making more money than he does about other people and their suffering
Marley - Scrooge's business partner who only learns about the eternal consequences of his greed when he dies, and comes back to warn Scrooge that his love of money will destroy him
The thieves at the pawn shop - want to make money by stealing and selling dead people's possessions
Merchants in the City - only interested in money and financial exploits

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The shop in stave 4 where they are willing to buy anything.

Quotes:
“I wish to be left alone” said by. Scrooge when asked to donate money
“Tight fisted hand at the grindstone”
“A squeezing wrenching grasping scraping clutching covetous old sinner
Another idol has replaced me
Context:
40% of the wealth was owned by 5%

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Key characters:
Scrooge - isolates self from society and doesn't care about social responsibilty
Fezziwig - model for Scrooge; takes care of workers with Christmas party
The Portly Gentlemen - men seeking charitable donations to help others at Christmas
Marley - delivers warning to Scrooge about his miserly ways

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Marley's chains - symbolic of the social responsibility of those with the means to help others less fortunate
The Pawn Shop - shows desperation of Londoners at the time (selling dead people's possessions to make money)

Quotes:
'No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock' - Scrooge has a reputation of being uncaring that keeps him isolated from society
'Bah! Humbug!' - shows Scrooge's lack of social responsibility
'We should make some small provision for the Poor and Destitute' - the Portly Gentlemen believe in giving to those in need
'In came all the young men and women employed in the business' - Fezziwig invites everyone to the party, regardless of social rank
'he hoped people saw him going to church' - Tiny Tim hopes other people see him going to church so they are reminded of the meaning of Christmas - this shows social responsibility.

Context:
Scrooge's speech in Stave 1 about the state of the poor relates to the ideas of Thomas Robert Malthus in his 'Essay on the Principal of Population' (1798). This inhuman view shows a lack of social conscience and responsibility.

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CHARACTERS
Scrooge doesn’t care about the poor and believes that they should just go to the workhouse because it is their own fault for being poor.
Cratchits are poor but are presented as generous and kind.
Charity workers are trying to help the poor which Scrooge rejects.
Ignorance and want are the causes of poor.
Thieves have to steal for money because they are poor.

SETTINGS/IMAGES
Thieves in Stave 4 going through Scrooge’s things and trying to get all the money they can.

Cracthits family dinner in Stave 3 celebrating even though they have so little food.

QUOTES :
Scrooge “What is Christmas but a time for paying bills without money?”
Miss Cratchit - ‘But brave in ribbons’
Narrator - ‘It was a small pudding for a pudding for a large family’

CONTEXT

- A quarter of the entire population of Victorian Britain was living in poverty.
- 40% of the country’s wealth was owned by 5% of the population.
- Naturally, there was crime everywhere in London .The poor had no choice but to become petty criminal, stealing food and picking pockets.
- Women, who had fallen on hard times, turned to prostitution

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Key characters=Scrooge because as the ghost of Christmas past shows him his childhood and his love loss and Scrooge is very upset about his past and this makes us feel bad for him. Furthermore in stave 5 we are forgiving Scrooge for his past as he is being jolly at Christmas and sharing

SETTINGS

QUOTES
Tiny Tim - ‘God bless us! Everyone!’
Fred - ‘Don’t be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow’
Ghost of Christmas Present - ‘The Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit’s dwelling’
Fan - ‘Father is much kinder than he used to be’
Scrooge - ‘tell me if Tiny Tim will live’

CONTEXT
- Dickens’ Christian background

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Key Characters:
Scrooge feels guilty for idolising money over belle , he also feels guilty after seeing fezziwigs kindness about not giving the carollers any money
Marley’s ghost is guilty because he been condemned. He recognises this later when he berates himself.

SETTINGS/ IMAGES

Jacob Marley when he appears infront of Scrooge.

QUOTES
“Nothing I should just like to say a word to my clerk right now”
“Incessant torture of remorse.”

CONTEXT
Victorian society was very much about pointing the blame with harsh punishments.

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KEY CHARACTERS:
-Scrooge
At the start of the story Scrooge is presented as greedy and selfish. He only fends for himself and pays very little money to Bob Cratchit - his clerk. He does not give anything away to charity and believes that the ‘union workhouses’ will solve the problem of poverty and that the ‘surplus population’ doesn’t  matter.

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- the prize turkey - Scrooge buys this in Stave 5 for the Cratchit

Context
Victorian England was a very Christian society

Quotes
"Spirit” said Scrooge with an interest never felt before “tell me if Tiny Tim will live”
“Don’t be hard upon me” Scrooge to Marley - shows how Scrooge is not prepared to change at the Beginning
“Have they no refuge or resource” cried Scrooge

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KEY CHARACTERS:
Scrooge
He is described as being solitary as a oyster
He refuses to go to Fred’s Christmas party.
He isolates himself from the rest of society to the point that he is unaware that he is viewed so badly by the rest of society
After Marley’s death Scrooge had no friends
Marley’s ghost
Marley’s ghost is forced to wonder the afterlife alone.
In life Marley only had Scrooge as a friend

QUOTES
“I wish to be left alone” - Scrooge (Stave 1)
“Scrooge never painted out old Marley’s name”
“Solitary as an oyster”
“A solitary child, neglected by his friends is left there still”
“Scrooge it was. I passed his office window... and there he sat quite alone”
“Scrooge had a very small fire”
“Good afternoon” - Scrooge says it 5 times as repetition which shows how eager he is to be left alone.

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Scrooge by himself on Christmas morning.
Scrooge when he was left at school. This could be a contributing factor to why the way he is as he was isolated in his childhood.

Context
Rich children were sent away to boarding school or home schooled. This causes them to be isolated from their families.

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Key Characters:
Cratchits
Fred
Fan

The Crachit Family show the importance of family in A Christmas Carol. They had pathos to the reader and Scrooge aswell.
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Stave 3
Context:
Marriages were often arranged as business deals.
The daughters were usually educated at home whilst the sons were sent away to boarding school.

Key Quotes
“I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, founder of the feast.” The Crachits are still appreciative of Scrooge, even though he pays Bob low wages, showing the love of a family.

"I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?" - Fred wants to be happy with Scrooge as they are family.

"Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like heaven" - Fan

“A solitary child, neglected by his friends" - Scrooge was lonely as a child as he didn't have a family with him.