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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 ...
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.
Christmas Carol Jacob Marley - Key Quotes & Analysis. -Dickens begins the first stave with this spontaneous information that Marley is dead to indicate to readers that Marley is a significant character in the novella and makes readers question if he will com back as a supernatural incarnation. This builds initial anticipation and tension all ...
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.
Before we see Marley’s Ghost, Dickens uses sound to set up our expectations: there is a clanking noise deep down below (Stave One, p. 13) and Scrooge remembers that ghosts drag chains. Dickens is careful to set this up before we see Marley to ensure we accept him as a ghost.
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
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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 ...
