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A christmas Carol:
Marley/ The arrival of
Marley's Ghost
- Marley
- Significant/ Important/
serious Character
- "There is no doubt that
Marley was dead. This
must be distinctly
understood or nothing
wonderful can come to the
story i am about to relate."
- Deceased/ Dead /
inanimate
- "Marley was
as dead as
a doornail."
- "Marley was dead to
begin with; there is
no doubt whatever
about that"
- Scrooges business partner, who died 7 years
previously, an equally greedy man. He is the ghost
that visits Scrooge to warn him of the penalty he will
pay for his earthly conduct. He drags a chain of cash
boxes, keys, and padlocks, which he is condemned to
carry with him forever.
- Carries Scrooges
charecteristics
- " Scrooge was.... his sole
friend and sole mourner.
And even scrooge was not
so dreadfully cut up by
the sad event
- The arrival of
Marley's Ghost
- The knocker
- "Now it is a fact, that
there was nothing
particular about the
knocker on the door
except that it was
very large."
- "...how it happened that
Scrooge having his key in
the lock of the door, saw
the knocker without its
undergoing any
intermediate process of
change; not a knocker, but
Marley's face."
- "Let it be borne in mind that
Scrooge had not bestowed one
thought on Marley, since his last
mention on his last mention of
his seven- years dead partner..."
- Marley's face on the knocker
- "Marley's face...It was
not angry or ferocious,
but looked at scrooge
as Marley used to
look."
- "...with ghostly
spectacles turned
upon its ghostly
forehead ."
- "The hair was curiously
stirred; as if by breath
or hot air; and though
the eyes were wide
open, they were
perfectly motionless.
That and its livid colour
made it horrible;..."
- Scrooges reaction/ response/ feeings, after
looking at Marleys face on the knocker
- "As Scrooge looked
fixedly at his
phenomenon, it was
a knocker again."
- "To say that he was
not startled or his
blood was not
conscious of a
terrible
solution...would be
untrue."
- "...he said 'pooh' 'pooh'
and closed it with a bang.
The sound resounded
through the house like
thunder."
- Frightened
- "He did pause with a moments
irresolution, before he shut the
door; and he did look cautiously
behind him first as if he half
expected to be terrified with the
sight of Marley's pig tail sticking out
into the hall"
- "...Scrooge thought he
heard a locomotive hearse
going on before him in the
gloom"
- "Sitting-room,
bedroom,
lumber-room. All as
they should be.
Nobody under the
table, nobody under
the sofa;
- "...he closed the door
and locked himself in;
doubled locked
himself, which was not
his custom."
- Charles Dickens builds up
tension, just before Scrooge
encounters Marley's Ghost
- "The cellar door
flew open with a
booming
sound,..."
- "The bell ceased as they had
begun, together. They were
succeeded by a clanking
noise, deep down below;"
- "It was with great
astonishment, and with strange
dread, that as he looked, he
saw this bell begin to swing. it
swung softly in the outset that
it scarcely made a sound; but
it soon rang loudly"
- "...then he heard the noise
much louder, on the floors
below' then coming up the
stairs ; then coming straight
towards the door."
- "If each small tile had been
a blank at first...there would
have been a copy of old
Marley's head on every one."
- "Upon its coming in,
the dying flame
leaped up as though
it cried, 'i know him
Marley's ghost' and fell
again."
- Marley's
Ghost
- Description of
Marley's
ghost
- "Marley in his pig-tail usual
waistcoat, tights, and boots; the
tassels on the latter bristling,
like his pig-tail, and his
coat-skirts, and the hair upon
its head."
- "It was long, and wound about
him like a tail; and it was made
(for Scrooge observed it closely)
of cash boxes, keys, padlocks,
ledgers, deeds, and heavy
purses wrought in steel."
- The Chains
- " I wear the chain i forged
in life,' repled the ghost. 'i
made it link by link yard by
yard; I girded it on of my
own free will, and of my
own free will i wore it..."
- " 'the
weight and length of the
strong coil you bear yourself?
it was full as heavy and as
long as this seven christmas
Eve's ago. You have laboured
on it, since. It is a ponderous
chain.!"
- "Not to know that no space
of regret can make
amends for one life's
opportunity misused! Yet
such was I ! oh ! such was
I !"
- "Scrooge fell upon his
knees, and clasped his hand
before his face. 'Mercy!' he
said."
- "Man of
wordly
mind!"
replied the
ghost..."
- Scrooges Reaction: uneasiness/
anxiety/
turbulence/petrified/shaken
- " Scrooge was not in
much habit for
cracking
jokes....distracting his
own attention, and
keeping down his
terror;
- " 'you are
fettered,' said
Scrooge
trembling..."
- "Scrooge
trembled more
and more"
- " ' Jacob' he said
imploringly . 'old
Jacob Marley ,
tell me more.
Speak comfort
to me, Jacob.' "
- " ' i have non to give' the Ghost
replied "....- in life my spirit
never roved beyoned the
narrow limits of our
money-changing hole; and weary
journeys lie before me!"
- " it was a habit with
Scrooge whenever he
became
thoughtful....Pondering on
what the Ghost had
said..."
- "Scrooge
shivered, and
wiped the
perspiration from
his eyebrow."
- "No rest, no
peace. Incessant
torture of
remorse."
- "Mankind
was my
business."
- "I am here to warn you, that
you have yet a chance of
escaping my fate. A hope and
chance of my procuring,
Ebenezer."
- "you will be
haunted'
resumed the
ghost, 'by three
spirits."