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The ghost of Jacob Marley tells his old partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, that, in the afterlife, he is like a "captive, bound, and double-ironed," because he is not only imprisoned by his heavy chains ...
Analysis. The narrator states that there was no doubt about Marley ’s death. Scrooge, Marley’s business partner, signed the register of his burial. The narrator considers that the phrase “dead as a doornail” doesn’t even describe Marley's lifelessness well enough. He adds that Scrooge very much knew that Marley was dead, having been ...
4.7 (137 reviews) Stave 1 - description of Scrooge's relationship with Marley. The repetition of the word 'sole' emphasises the fact that Scrooge was all Marley had, implying that the opposite was also true. Therefore, this shows the reader that Scrooge is alone and friendless. In addition, Dickens sets up a clear link between the two - so much ...
Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him. Oh!
Stave One, pages 10–20: Marley’s Ghost has a message for Scrooge Key language: The door knocker Edward Westmacott. Dickens devotes a whole paragraph to the description of Scrooge’s door knocker, helping the reader to visualise it, but also ensuring that we understand its full significance – Scrooge isn’t the sort of person who sees things and Marley has been dead for years.
Mar 10, 2022 · Marley was the same as Scrooge before he died. It's for his sins that he's forced to walk the earth in torment as a ghost, a form of purgatory. Scrooge is saying that he had (and has, though that realization is not quite yet) an opportunity to learn from his mistakes and improve himself before death, unlike Marley who died without making penance.
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As Marley knows, Scrooge’s currently invisible chain consists of the same items, because the two men made the same choices and focused on the same things in their lives. “How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.”. It was not an agreeable idea.
