Themes: Poverty, happiness, charity, fear, Scrooge, family, Christianity/Pagan, Christmas
Caricature
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Ghost Story
I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?
Fezziwig the Employer
The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
Education is Transformative
Ali Baba! … at the Gate of Damascus …Robinson Crusoe
Escape and St Paul’s conversion to Christianity on the road to Damascus
Fatherhood
Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!
Politics/Thomas Malthus
If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Repeated by the Ghost of Christmas Present about Tiny Tim later.
Tiny Tim
“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
Bob Cratchit
my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas…
Bob had but fifteen “Bob” a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name
Education and Revolution
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
Ending and Fatherhood
He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.
Ending and Employer
A merry Christmas, Bob!” … I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family,
Ending and Happiness
Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh … His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
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