A christmas carol notes
Stave One
1) How does Dickens set up a contrast between Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit?
Dickens begins to create a contrast between Ebenezer Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit through the narrators first descriptive passage about the main protagonist, Scrooge.
Scrooge’s negative, mean old miser personality, or as the narrator describes him the first stave as 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” is a complete contradicting innate character, when compared to Bob Cratchit, Scrooges kind, faithful, compassionate and optimistic personal accountant. Cratchit is a working.
}ass accountant who is employed by Scrooge, and he is a kind and loving family man. Scrooge generally mistreats Cratchit, but the accountant bears his employer no ill will because he believes that Scrooge's life is lonely. Through the alternating and contradistinctive personality, lives, and heart, in which Dickens has created between Scrooge and Cratchit, he creates a superior understanding and comparison, on how the rich behaved towards the poor or “working class”. Dickens also shows how the working-class may have been underdeveloped and in finical hardship, but still found the warmth and incredible feelings of love and faith within the simplest of things, both materialistic, and within a person. This created an ongoing query into how, in all day and ages, races and finical positioning, on how we measure our wealth. Bob Cratchit was wealthy within his heart and soul, where Scrooge was poorest of poor.
2) How does Dickens represent working people and their christmas celebrations?
Poverty and happiness are not mutually exclusive, as is seen throughout the novella. When Scrooge is wished a Merry Christmas by his nephew, he rebuttals him with ‘What right have you
1) How does Dickens set up a contrast between Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit?
Dickens begins to create a contrast between Ebenezer Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit through the narrators first descriptive passage about the main protagonist, Scrooge.
Scrooge’s negative, mean old miser personality, or as the narrator describes him the first stave as 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” is a complete contradicting innate character, when compared to Bob Cratchit, Scrooges kind, faithful, compassionate and optimistic personal accountant. Cratchit is a working.
}ass accountant who is employed by Scrooge, and he is a kind and loving family man. Scrooge generally mistreats Cratchit, but the accountant bears his employer no ill will because he believes that Scrooge's life is lonely. Through the alternating and contradistinctive personality, lives, and heart, in which Dickens has created between Scrooge and Cratchit, he creates a superior understanding and comparison, on how the rich behaved towards the poor or “working class”. Dickens also shows how the working-class may have been underdeveloped and in finical hardship, but still found the warmth and incredible feelings of love and faith within the simplest of things, both materialistic, and within a person. This created an ongoing query into how, in all day and ages, races and finical positioning, on how we measure our wealth. Bob Cratchit was wealthy within his heart and soul, where Scrooge was poorest of poor.
2) How does Dickens represent working people and their christmas celebrations?
Poverty and happiness are not mutually exclusive, as is seen throughout the novella. When Scrooge is wished a Merry Christmas by his nephew, he rebuttals him with ‘What right have you