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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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Explain Scrooge seeing an apparition of Marley's face on Scrooge's door knocker. - Dickens developing theme of the supernatural and begins to create tension- Scrooge dismisses the vision at the time, but it foreshadows the arrival of Marley's Ghost later that evening. Analyse"cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses."
