If you like this, we think you might also be interested in these related quotations. Theres irony there. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.". Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!. But he put his hand upon the key he had relinquished, turned it sturdily, walked in, and lighted his candle. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. felt the chilling influence of his its death-cold eyes", The visually frightening image of Marley quickly has an influence on ScroogeAdjective of "cold" is used to describe Scrooge through pathetic fallacy in Stave One, furthering the idea that Scrooge acts as a mirror image of Marley, Dickens uses Marley to verbalise one of his key messages of social responsibility and how readers should be exactly this. `Christmas a humbug, uncle! said Scrooges nephew. This site is using cookies under cookie policy . If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marleys head on every one. Christmas a humbug, uncle! said Scrooges nephew. The brightness of the shops where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed. You are fettered, said Scrooge, trembling. This film version opens with his funeral in 1836, then jumps ahead to 1843. There is no doubt whatever about that. Scrooge signed it. Is that the chance and hope you mentioned, Jacob? he demanded, in a faltering voice. Mind! Scrooge argues that if people would rather die, they should just go and do it. Some more recent texts have changed this colon or comma to a hyphen. Come! In his ghost form, he looks the same but is transparent and must wear and drag heavy chains which symbolize his. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Countrys done for. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlets Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spotsay Saint Pauls Churchyard for instanceliterally to astonish his sons weak mind. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Scrooge signed it. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowing sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. Whats Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? First Lines: A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens.
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