Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A Christmas Carol Themes
- Compassion & Forgiveness
- "Home, for good and all. Home, for ever and ever. Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like heaven."
-Stave 2
- Little Fan
- "I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always."
-Stave 3
- Scrooge himself his hurting
- Isolation
- "Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and his sole mourner."
-Stave 1
- Scrooge & Marley had the same lifestyle
- Marley's death has meant Scrooge has lost his last connection to humanity
- "Sole" means only, suggesting Marley was his only friend
- Now his dead, Scrooge is isolated from society
- Transformation
- Time
- Memory & Past
- Family
- "She died a woman" said the Ghost "and had, as I think, children...your nephew!
Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind.
- Stave 2
- Fred is Scrooge's last link to his childhood
- Guilt & Blame