Themes Flashcards
All 15 cards in this deck
Poverty: what does Scrooge suggest the poor should do if they would rather die than enter workhouses?
Die, and “decrease the surplus population” (Stave 1).
Social responsibility: which ghost says “Mankind was my business”?
Marley’s Ghost (Stave 1).
Social responsibility: whose words does the Ghost of Christmas Present quote back at Scrooge?
Scrooge’s own: “surplus population” and “Are there no prisons?”
Poverty: which two children represent the effects of neglecting the poor?
Ignorance and Want (Stave 3).
Poverty: which of the two children does the Ghost say to beware “most of all”?
The boy, Ignorance.
Greed: what “idol” does Belle say has displaced her?
“A golden one”: money.
Greed: what does Belle call Scrooge’s “master-passion”?
Gain.
Generosity: whose torch sprinkles good humour onto poor people’s dinners?
The Ghost of Christmas Present’s (Stave 3).
Christmas spirit: which employer throws a Christmas Eve ball for his workers?
Fezziwig (Stave 2).
Christmas spirit: which character keeps inviting Scrooge to dinner every year despite his refusals?
His nephew, Fred.
Family: which family is poor but “happy, grateful, pleased with one another”?
The Cratchits (Stave 3).
Isolation: who is “Quite alone in the world” when Belle’s husband sees him on Christmas Eve?
Scrooge, as Marley lies dying (Stave 2).
Death: who are the only people to show emotion at the dead man’s death in Stave 4?
Caroline and her husband, and the emotion is pleasure.
Religion: which Bible verse does Peter Cratchit read after Tiny Tim’s death?
“And He took a child, and set him in the midst of them.”
Redemption: what does Scrooge become to Tiny Tim at the end?
“a second father”.