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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 ...
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.
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On a frigid, foggy Christmas Eve in London, a shrewd, mean-spirited cheapskate named Ebenezer Scrooge works meticulously in his counting-house. Outside the office creaks a little sign reading \"Scrooge and Marley\"--Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner, has died seven years previous. Inside the office, Scrooge watches over his clerk, a poor dim...
Suddenly, a ruddy-faced young man bursts into the office offering holiday greetings and an exclamatory, \"Merry Christmas!\" The young man is Scrooge's jovial nephew Fred who has stopped by to invite Scrooge to Christmas dinner. The grumpy Scrooge responds with a \"Bah! Humbug!\" refusing to share in Fred's Christmas cheer. After Fred departs, a pa...
The opening Stave of A Christmas Carol sets the mood, describes the setting, and introduces many of the principal characters. It also establishes the novel's allegorical structure. (Allegory, a type of narrative in which characters and events represent particular ideas or themes, relies heavily on symbolism. In this case, Scrooge represents greed, ...
Stave One, pages 1–3: Marley is dead and Scrooge cares only about money; Stave One, pages 3–10: Scrooge has visitors at the office; Stave One, pages 10–20: Marley’s Ghost has a message for Scrooge. Summary; Why is this section important? Key language: The door knocker; Key quotation: Scrooge’s character; Key language: Dickens’s use ...
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The chains and cash boxes that Marley's ghost wears show that he wasted his life in pursuit of solely material gain; Marley's ghost verbalises Dickens' message about the importance of being charitable and socially responsible; Marley's ghost's visit could be said to be a catalyst in Scrooge's transformation
