This symbol supports the theme of the importance of memory and its ability to cause change. Friday, also known as Man Friday, is another character in Defoes Robinson Crusoe. Twelve. Fezziwig has invited people from all corners of society to his Christmas party. No more. Focussing on Stave Two and how Fezziwig is presented in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, we analyse key quotes around his character, decide on his central characteristics and explore the impact that he has on Ebenezer Scrooge as the main protagonist is allowed a chance to revisit his childhood. Provoked by the sudden thought in his old age that his life has possibly . Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly. It suggests that he enjoyed his time as Fezziwig's apprentice. 7) The Ghost of Christmas Past (Stave Two)
Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered, said the Ghost. The sights and smells of Scrooges childhood home reconnect him with all of the thoughts and emotions of his past that he has so far been successful in forgetting. He was very much attached to me, was Dick. Everyone has a wonderful time but the Ghost asks why the people are so grateful to Fezziwig when the party cost little money. So he listened for the hour. This is an example of indirect characterization, in which we can infer character traits from what it said and shown rather than being told directly by the narrator. Though I never could have been so rude, no, no! Related Characters: The Ghost of Christmas Past Related Symbols: Images of Age and Youth The strongest emotion we have seen of Scrooge thus far is brought on by a realization that he is the lone child neglected by his friends. Notice how Dickens has begun to transform Scrooge into a more sympathetic character as he is humanized by these memories. Remember it! cried Scrooge with fervourI could walk it blindfold., Strange to have forgotten it for so many years! observed the Ghost. Scrooge clearly remembers his past and childhood with excitement. Fezziwig, an old, jolly man, gives Scrooge and another worker the night off for Christmas Eve. We see a scene from when Scrooge was a young man: Fezziwig and his whole family throw a Christmas party. Christmas, Ebenezer. The verbs in all the sentences below are in the passive voice. Even if I have grown so much wiser, what then? Home, for ever and ever. There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!, You fear the world too much, she answered gently. Fowls clucked and strutted in the stables; and the coach-houses and sheds were over-run with grass. Furthermore, the Second Bank of the United States, primarily funded by European creditors and meant to be a hub for American fiscal transactions, was attacked by president Andrew Jackson after his inauguration in 1829. Report an issue . 19) Key quotes This sight is incredibly painful for Scrooge because the Ghost of Christmas Past has forced Scrooge to see the beautiful life that he could have had with Belle, but gave up for money. It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlour, and by one stair at a time up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided. With these first words, Fezziwig reveals more about his character to us. Have I not?, What then? he retorted. 3) Stave one language analysis
By the conclusion of Stave Two, what does the reader know is not true about Scrooge? Scrooge sees and knows everyone in this vision of his past, and their happiness is reflected in the Christmas season. Just as the memories of youth came back to Scrooge when he first revisited his childhood home, the memories of a time in which Christmas meant joy to him resurface. An icicle must have got into the works. Even this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was not its strangest quality. There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. Hilli-ho! cried old Fezziwig, skipping down from the high desk with wonderful agility. During the whole of this time, Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits. It also has connections to the Christian and Hebrew religions because one of the Ten Commandments states that one should not worship false idols, meaning that God is the only being worthy of worship. 18) Exam question review
In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable. Categories: A Christmas Carol | Tags: Dancing, Legs Read More He appeared to wink with his legs. 2) Historical context He only knew that it was quite correct; that everything had happened so; that there he was, alone again, when all the other boys had gone home for the jolly holidays. I am. The Ghost of Christmas Past reminds Scrooge of the extent of what he has lost due to his avarice. But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents. Peter was disappointed that the story "did not have a very happy ending:' Michael, however, felt the ending "had a nice touch". This is the adjective form of the noun "dower," which at one time had the same meaning as a "dowry," or the money brought into a marriage by the bride. To gainsay something is to deny or dispute it. When he says, "Why, it's old Fezziwig! What does the Ghost's observation suggest about Scrooge? A terrible voice in the hall cried, Bring down Master Scrooge's box, there! and in the hall appeared the schoolmaster himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful state of mind by shaking hands with him. Some shaggy ponies now were seen trotting towards them with boys upon their backs, who called to other boys in country gigs and carts, driven by farmers. A gig is a two-wheeled carriage. They went in. This has saved me a lot of time. He spoke so gently to me one dear night when I was going to bed, that I was not afraid to ask him once more if you might come home; and he said Yes, you should; and sent me in a coach to bring you. Ill not gainsay it, Spirit. "The happiness he gives," Scrooge insists, "is quite as great as if it. Scrooge and his friend quickly clean up and build a cozy fire. Good Heaven! said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him. The name comes from the mechanical function which allows someone to press a button on the device, and it will chime the last our struck. Why was he rejoiced beyond all bounds to see them! Something went wrong, please try again later. It was past two when he went to bed. But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! Who, and what are you? Scrooge demanded. A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.. Dickens thus introduces a theme about the importance of memory: there is productive power in reflecting upon our past in order to learn from our mistakes in order to positively impact our present. The name is derived from the location it was originally madeMontgomery, Wales. 20. "No more work to-night. Feeling lonely, Crusoe finds a parrot and teaches it phrases so that Crusoe would finally have a companion to talk to. The Gate of Damascus, stands at one of the major entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem. Show me no more!. Scrooge anxiously awaits the first spirits arrival partially due to fear, but also due to the fact that he now has a limited amount of time to change his fate. This quote is showing how Scrooge is really changing, he's forgotten about the views he used to have on society. Dickens uses Fezziwig to symbolize how an ethical and compassionate boss should behave. Stave Two, pages 30-4: Fezziwig's party Key quotation: Scrooge starts to change Dickens shows us how Scrooge is changing through his response to the Ghost's provocative statement: A small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude (p. 33). The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow. You maythe memory of what is past half makes me hope you will have pain in this. Fezziwig, who had the power to make his employees happy or unhappy, chose to be kind and make them happy, and remembering his own gratitude makes Scrooge regret his bad treatment of Bob Cratchit. Fan's statement here suggests that Scrooge's father was unkind for much of Scrooge's childhood. Rather than defending Scrooges current attitudes and actions towards those around him, Scrooges despair for the lonely child helps explain what might have led him to become the man that he is: misanthropic and reclusive. The gate is also featured in One Thousand and One Nights in the story Noureddin Ali of Cairo and His Son Bedreddin Hassan. The story tells of a Princess (Noureddins daughter) who is forced to marry the Sultans Groom, a man with a hunchback. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now! By doing so, Dickens creates a tone of tension similar to the kind one would aim for in telling a ghost story. The Teaching Buddy. ", Scrooge beginning to show change, Stave 2, shows theme of redemption. Due to his and his Democratic partys efforts, the bank was liquidated in 1841, just a few years before A Christmas Carol was published. The sort of man who knew his business better than you or I could have told it him!) Near to the winter fire sat a beautiful young girl, so like the last that Scrooge believed it was the same, until he saw her, now a comely matron, sitting opposite her daughter. How often and how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say. 6) Marley's message (Stave One) One Christmas time, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone, he did come, for the first time, just like that. Let us go on.. A child but an old man. Likely a reference to the United States financial struggles in the 1830s40s, this phrase means unreliable. During this period, the US underwent a financial crisis and recession called the Panic of 1837, which resulted in widespread poverty and loss of capital. Scrooges emotional capacity is apparent here, even if only in the shedding of one small tear. Several more people come in and a party ensues. 5) Marley's Ghost - language analysis (Stave One) He then made bold to inquire what business brought him there. Youre right. I should like to have given him something: that's all. But scorning rest upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish. This quote is his response to the men telling him that some poor people would rather die than go to a workhouse or prison. He struggles to hide the light (repress his memories) but is unable to do so, as they shine through the extinguisher-cap in full force. In came the cook, with her brother's particular friend, the milkman. A term's worth of ready-to-teach resources created for the 2021 examination on A Christmas Carol. Privacy Policy. ''Remember it,' cried Scrooge with fervour - 'I could walk it blindfold.'. Includes: 1. Orson, who was stolen by a bear, grows up to be wild. When it was made you were another man.'. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!" 15. In this extract, the Ghost of Christmas Past has taken Scrooge to revisit his school days. While not solely associated with the Christmas season, the inclusion of this dance contributes to the tone of spirit and joy due to its fast-paced and animated nature. Confused, Scrooge reflects on his meeting with Marley's Ghost. Attitude in this context means something like position. In other words, Scrooge has sat up in his bed, startled by the visitor at his bedside. KS4/GCSE English Teaching Resources: A Christmas Carol - Old Fezziwig (20-slide PowerPoint teaching resource with 6 worksheets)In Stave Two, Dickens introduces his readers to Scrooge's antithesis as an employer, Old Fezziwig. 7) The Ghost of Christmas Past (Stave Two) struck up Sir Roger de Coverley. Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Why, it's Ali Baba! Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy. but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! If this had never been between us, said the girl, looking mildly, but with steadiness, upon him; tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now? He rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself, from his shoes to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice: Scrooge's former self, now grown a young man, came briskly in, accompanied by his fellow-prentice. This likely explains why Scrooge was sent to a boarding school and provides further evidence for why Scrooge's memories of Christmastime are not all happy ones. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. The Spirit touched him on the arm, and pointed to his younger self, intent upon his reading. At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he had used to be. Why do you delight to torture me?, No more! cried Scrooge. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two. This is meant less as a way of saying that he can't capture the moment and more as a way of finishing his string of action and excitement in the household before transitioning back to Scrooge. 18) Exam question review The clock was wrong. Focussing on Stave Two and how Fezziwig is presented in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, we analyse key quotes around his character, decide on his central characteristics and explore the impact that he has on Ebenezer Scrooge as the main protagonist is allowed a chance to revisit his childhood. Scrooge begins to show emotion, showing the beginning of his change and redemption, but hasn't fully changed as he won't admit his emotion. The narrator suggests that even Scrooge is perplexed that his first instinct, after hearing the purpose of the ghosts visit, is to ask it to put its cap on so as to extinguish the light. My time grows short, observed the Spirit. Edexcel A Christmas Carol designed for English Literature Paper 2. The repetition of "in came" suggests that Fezziwig was very popular, and welcome everybody, which is a large contrast to Scrooge. 17. A positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig's calves. Scrooge and the ghost visit Fezziwig's workplace, where Scrooge was an apprentice, on Christmas Eve. I should like to have given him something: that's all., The Ghost smiled thoughtfully, and waved its hand: saying as it did so, Let us see another Christmas!. It means something like before you know it and is used to express a very short amount of time. Im glad of it. Scrooge scorns his. You are changed. Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end. Suggest to the reader that Fezziwig but unlike Scrooge he shares it with the people around him and he is emotionally rich as well. 'A small matter,' said the Ghost, 'to make these silly folks so full of gratitude. At the beginning of Stave II, Scrooge lies awake considering that he could, "no more go to sleep than go to heaven." This shows that he probably isn't going to heaven. May you be happy in the life you have chosen!, Spirit! said Scrooge, show me no more! Quick!. Fezziwig, fictional character, the generous employer of the young Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. It was a strange figurelike a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions. Perhaps Scrooge could not have told anybody why, if anybody could have asked him, but he had a special desire to see the Spirit in his cap, and begged him to be covered. 'What Idol has displaced you?' Gone are the puritanical values that banned Christmas, and, also, to a large degree, gone as well are the memories of Christmas as a serious and . 2 Mr Fezziwig 2 Scrooge - as an employer 2 Scrooge - greedy 2 Belle 2 Scrooge - arousing strong feelings in others 3 Fred 3 Tiny Tim . You recollect the way? inquired the Spirit. They left the high-road by a well-remembered lane, and soon approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little weathercock-surmounted cupola on the roof, and a bell hanging in it. Negus was a popular drink during the Victorian era that usually consisted of wine, port, hot water, sugar, and various spices.
The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty. Please note: When downloading a bundle each resource must be downloaded separately. B. Scrooge says that the Ghost is wrong about Fezziwig, revealing that Scrooge remembers his own youth better than he thought he did. The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them. When the clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up. Hilli-ho, Dick! While Dickens has just successfully described much of the activity surrounding the entrance of the father and the porter with presents, he still resorts to this statement that the feelings were indescribable. But she had a large heart!, So she had, cried Scrooge. As to measuring her waist in sport, as they did, bold young brood, I couldn't have done it; I should have expected my arm to have grown round it for a punishment, and never come straight again. A Christmas Carol - AWARD NOMINATED: EVERY LESSON for Charles Dickens' text. Out upon! is a command that was commonly used in the past to mean something close to away with! or shame upon! While Scrooge admits that he is momentarily experiencing the cheer and elation that he felt for Christmas as a child, he invalidates these feelings immediately. 'A Golden one' [Belle replied]. Your free preview of York Notes Plus+ 'A Christmas Carol (Grades 91) ' has expired. The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy! The expression, before a man can say, Jack Robinson, originated in the 18th century. 11) The Cratchits (Stave Three)
Although they had but that moment left the school behind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battled for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were. Hassan later gets left in his pajamas at Damascus Gate by the Genii, which is what Scrooge references. Stave 2 'It's Fezziwig alive again.' Scrooge is happy to see him alive again- he's sad that Fezziwig died. Christmas Eve, Dick. A positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig's calves. Scrooge begins to realise that money and happiness aren't the same thing when he sees his old boss Fezziwig: AIHDM: Belle breaks off her marriage to Scrooge because he cares more for money than love . There goes Friday, running for his life to the little creek! In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. He corroborated everything, remembered everything, enjoyed everything, and underwent the strangest agitation. 2: History: May 22, 2022 . The ghosts are going to help Scrooge in his reclamation by showing him visions of the past, present, and future, in the hopes of instilling or unmasking compassion and empathy. * Differentiated lesson packs on all five staves/chapters 11) The Cratchits (Stave Three) What business had he to be married to the Princess!. He was taught a lot- trade, kindness etc, but didn't keep it all with him. A quarter past, said Scrooge, counting. The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed, and groped his way to the window. While Scrooge heavily criticizes and resents Christmas now, it did at one time bring him happiness, and he cannot escape these memories. Then she began to drag him, in her childish eagerness, towards the door; and he, nothing loth to go, accompanied her. It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks. The term latent in this context means something like dormant or unseen. Dickens uses this word to illustrate the overwhelming loneliness that Scrooge felt. Fan showed Scrooge the love and attention that he desperately needed from his parents, but never received. This simile shows that Fezziwig was so joyful that when he danced he shone with happiness. A. Scrooge says to the Ghost that Fezziwig was a good businessman, revealing that Scrooge wants to run his office differently. He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps. It is enough that I have thought of it, and can release you., In a changed nature; in an altered spirit; in another atmosphere of life; another Hope as its great end. The ghost holds the power to decide what is seen and unseen, shedding light on something or keeping it hidden. Your rating is required to reflect your happiness. What would I not have given to be one of them! A Christmas Carol Analysis - Stave Two - Belle 3,373 views May 31, 2020 44 Dislike Share Mrs Cogger's Literature Revision 1.14K subscribers Reading of the text: 0:00 - 4:50 Analysis of key. The city had entirely vanished. That landfill garbage disintegrates has been believed by many people. Something, I think? the Ghost insisted. That they are what they are, do not blame me!, Remove me! Scrooge exclaimed, I cannot bear it!. This resource for KS4/GCSE enables learners to gain an insight into the scriptural . 6) Marley's message (Stave One)
He felt the Spirit's glance, and stopped. Why was he filled with gladness when he heard them give each other merry Christmas, as they parted at cross-roads and by-ways for their several homes! Why would Scrooge want to speak to his clerk? light is a symbol of righteousness (free of sin) and truth. What Idol has displaced you? he rejoined. This is a reference to the character Ali Baba in the folk tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." Belle, said the husband, turning to his wife with a smile, I saw an old friend of yours this afternoon., How can I? 17) Exam practice pack (10 questions) Quotes Stave Two: The First of the Three Spirits "Bear but a touch of my hand there," said the Spirit, laying it upon his heart, "and you shall be upheld in more than this!" As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either hand. 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