Another point for the 'Hard and sharp as Flint' quote: Flint can also be used to start fires, therefore suggesting that Scrooge has the potential to release the warmth that he is capable of producing later on in the play, when helped by the figurative light from the Ghost of Christmas Past's candle flame, or the warmth of Fezziwig or Fred towards Scrooge. This parallels the simile of Scrooge being as 'solitary as an oyster,' with the metaphorical pearl inside the oyster representing hope for Scrooge. These are effective uses of foreshadowing used by Dickens.
Flint is actually easily chippable too even though it is very hard, suggesting how one has to chip away at all these different walls of parsimonious lifestyle and greed in order to reach Scrooge's true self
"If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population." "I wear the chain I forged in life." "His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it." "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want." "Hard and sharp as flint." "I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man." "Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce." "A churchyard, overrun by weeds, the growth of vegetation's death not life - a worthy place!" "Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten." "The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground."
@@iiaxshy dw this guy knows what hes on about, im doing lit this year as well and you just need enough quotes to analyse the entire plot summary, each quote in detailed analysis, so copy this guy👍
Here's a great interpretation with the Ignorance and Want quote: Dickens wrote in a patriachal society and wrote A Christmas Carol to combat Social Injustice and Equality. The boy, masculine, could represent the dominant male in Victorian society who made majority of the rich he was focusing on in the novel. The girl is feminine, subservient (less than men in society), and can represent the poor who want fair wages and better living conditions. Alternatively, women in this era were not typically educated, like the poor, and had less rights. Perhaps Dickens was also commenting on equality of women in society as well as the poor.
@@j45p3r_2 the patriachal society is the undercurrent of social inequality through the social classes. The boy and girl can be interpreted as extensions of Christmas, innocent and still developing, although hidden beneath the 'foldings of its robe'. They act as a symbol of these underlying problems in victorian, christian society and also associate them with gender roles in that society.
Thank you sir, for all these videos. Tomorrow, Shakespeare, and a Christmas carol will finally come to an end, and wether i do wel or not, i love that you do all of this for us, and put so much blood, sweat and tears into the channel for us. I wish you a happy, healthy and long life. Thank you for one last time. Edit: Ohhh my God! It went so well sir, thank you again, all because of you, and Mr Salles. You two deserve a nobel prize!
There’s also 1 thing to add with the quote “If they would rather die, they better do it and decrease the surplus population”. In Victorian London, there was a politician called Malthus who said those exact words before the book was published 😂. You could also add some AO3 in there and mention the irony of it, And Dickens trying to mock Malthus. The funniest part is that Malthus died before the book was published 💀, if you wanna easier way of remembering it, you’re welcome!
@@asavtripple6 not even joking, I have never passed my literature since year 7. I watched his video the day before the exam. Man I am FULLY serious he is amazing!!!!
Bro you're such a legend, I just got my mock results for all the papers, and on A Christmas Carol I got 30/30 because of your interpretation with the dirtier snow on the ground, and the smoother cleaner snow on the roofs.
Another point for the overgrown weeds in churchyard quote: The weeds symbolise Scrooge who took all the money but gave none - Caused a lot of people to suffer and weeds cause vegetation to suffer
Your “hard and sharp as a flint” analysis helped me for today’s exam massively. I can’t appreciate this video enough, If I hadn’t watched it yesterday I would have probably wrote some super basic stuff😂
G - Good point E - Evidence E - Explanation Z - zoom in W - Writers intention E - effect on reader T - Tone A - In addition L - Link back to point C - Context
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Thank you so much! I just finished my march mocks and I went from getting 6's in english to 9's on both literature papers! Now I just gotta keep revising these videos for my real exams in May. Really good quotes and deep analysis.
@@Jack-cf7wm Yes we had November and March mocks I think they do it since for us anyway in November we did Science paper 1's and English lit and lang paper 1 and then in the march all paper 2's
@@Jack-cs3yb I'm not sure for instance my lit exam last mocks was inspector calls so I wanted to improve my analysis of the characters and what themes and and context they represent chosen by the writer. I think I did about 3-5 for each character and then made a mindmap to unload those quotes I'd just looked at before the exam onto the paper. At the end of the day you don't need to do the PEE structure of making a point and then backing it up with a quote because what they want is your ideas to show you've thought about the text in a deeper meaning. So give your idea and then what's lead you to that idea and that doesn't need to be a quote as it can be a reaccount of what happened or what they did to show evidence for your reasoning!
"If they would die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population," "I wear the chain i forged in life." "His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it." "This boy is ignorance. This girl is want." "Hard and sharp as flint." "I am light as a feather, Iam as happy as a angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man." "A churchyard, overran by weeds, the growth of vegetation's death not like a worthy place!" "Scrooge was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten." "The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground."
a good bit of context for the first quote is that he is echoing the words of Thomas Malthaus (a stirn renowned capitalist) which would perspiciously vilify Scrooge to his victorian proletariat readers
Also u can write abt the fact that Dickens used to experience poverty as a child and how in almost all his texts he is describing people in poverty as goodhearted
i tried doing a comparison . This is what I wrote based of these quotes. Scrooge is illustrated as a redeemed character in Stave 5 when he feels 'as happy as an angel'. This simile depicts Scrooge as being close to God and perhaps hints at the fact that he was reborn with a sudden sense of social responsibility , 'I am quite a baby'. This completely juxtaposes stave 1 when Scrooge was 'hard and sharp as flint' .This simile is employed by Dickens in order to make Scrooge seem impenetratable and highly isolated from God . Furthermore some connotations to the adjective 'hard' are 'rigid' and 'compact' . The connotation of 'rigid' along with the adjective 'sharp' sets Scrooge out as dangerous for the lower class due to his capitalist views and Misanthropic due to his avarice which is suggested by the fact that Bob's fire ' was very much smaller'. Dickens employs this juxtaposition in order to teach us that anyone , no matter their personality can change their fate by a simple act of good will such as donating to charities. Dickens would of known this because as a child he too grew in poverty and would of wanted a stronger sense of social responsibility. Hope you like it. ( I am predicted a 6 so I am not the best lol)
Great attempt but there are simply too many quotes you are using which is not recommended. I’d recommend that you pick a single PUNCHY quote and analyse that. I’d also recommend that you should talk about the word choices first and the connotations of these word choices and later move onto the language techniques and structural techniques used( make sure to talk about the effect of these techniques on the reader or on their text) and then possibly talk about sentence structures and highlight their influence on the text. After this, talk about the tone and talk about the context and how the techniques and words you just analysed relates to the context and make sure to answer the question(the answer must be related to what your analysis is lol) and that’s all I can remember from the back of my head lol. Ofc we can’t do all these steps in the time allocated(maybe you can) so try to do most of these steps for each paragraph and that should ensure you a higher mark. Hopefully we all do well :)
No "Solitary as an Oyster"? An oyster is presented as having a rough and rigid exterior which is fragile - metaphorical of Scrooge's own fragility by being an outcast among society. People don't even want to talk to him "with gladsome looks", even the "blind dogs" avoid him. The adjective "solitary" further support this, conveying how Scrooge feels trapped within this oyster - unable to reveal himself comfortably. However, the oyster is also symbolic of the pure qualities that Scrooge has retained, but afraid to open up (an oyster closing and opening). Inside the oyster is the pearl. This pearl can be represented as the remaining parts of dignity he has left. Scrooge doesn't want to open up and reveal his true self to anyone, as a result of his lack of fatherhood, and being a "solitary child, neglected by his friends".
one point that I have to make is that although this video was informative the main criticism was not of capitalism, which is by no means evil but instead a system used to achieve economic stability rooted in the cultures of ancient trade. Dickens was criticising the Malthusian economic theory which a huge influence at the time and contributed to the huge amount of deaths in the Irish potato famine and encouraged general selfishness off the basis that the earths supplies are limited and helping the poor would only increase the surplus population.
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for the last quote, i want to infer more on the white snow on the roof and the dirtier snow on the ground. When winter ends, the sun will melt away both the snow on the roof and the snow on the ground and the sun could be symbolic for God and how he is equal, how when you die you leave behind every intrinsic physical value you had, and perhaps you could use this to show how the rich may be above the poor for a season (life) but God is above them all for all seasons (forever). Dickens could be reasserting religion back into the 19th century and could also be warning us to demolish the Great Divide, not conform to the ideologies of capitalism and help others as much as we can.
hey sir, im loving your videos, they are helping me out so much. However, I have a question about the quote "I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy, I am as giddy as a drunken man." do you think that each of these could be referring to a past event in the story? with "drunken man" being the men on the boat, "An angel" being his dead sister, "a school boy" being himself when he was with Fezziwig and "a feather" referring to the quote "on the wings of the wind" showing how scrooge can now be swept up by god into heaven and not be trapped like the other ghosts in stave 1. Its just a thought that I had but I'm not sure if it would actually get me any marks, thankyou.
@@dragonrider1279 thanks so much. It’s a great analysis. Definitely use it. I love it good luck tomorrow you’ll do amazing. If you have any other interpretations you’d wanna share i wouldnt mind hearing them 😭jk
@@myalicksblackballs that’s about it to be honest. All of my 2 brain cells were used thinking of that. Good luck as well for tomorrow, your gonna do great.
Another link to context for the surplus population quote could be malthusianism because it was a common ideology among many “bad capitalists” at the time
More about the 'if they would rather die' quote, it is a jab to a popular viewpoint at the time from a man named Thomas Malthus with the malthusian viewpoint, thinking that the poor, destitute and disabled are better to be dead because they don't help society.
"If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population." "I wear the chain I forged in life." "His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it." "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want." "Hard and sharp as flint." "I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man." "A churchyard, overrun by weeds, the growth of vegetation's death not life - a worthy place!" "Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten." "The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground."
I love this man! It saddens me to know that this is the last video I will watch from him as I have the normal thought that Literature is utterly, disgustingly retched.
pretty sure he did 10 but forgot to edit one "Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce."
9:21 the boy representing ignorance suggests that in the 19 th centuries patriarchal society views men as the people who influenced the society and have the most power
hi thanks a lot for these videos they're really helpful! i wanted to ask if anyone has any predictions for what our question could be for this year for A Christmas Carol? ?(As in whether you think it'll be more likely to be a theme based or a character based question) honestly, i don't expect many replies as i'm guessing we all know as much as each other but anything would be helpful :)
I don't thinknit matters since characters portray themes so you can answer each question interchangeable. I found that revising the characters also made me revise the themes. This is also the case for An Inspector Calls.
@@algebruh7695 or "your chain was as long and ponderous as thing seven christmas eves ago" something like that. Its more directed to scrooge to fear him.
Hi Mr Everything English can you put this video in A Christmas Carol RUclips playlists please and new A Christmas Carols videos in the playlists too please 🙏
Can someone help me with giving methods for each quote, this is where i struggle and the ACT numbers 1. "If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population." 2. "I wear the chain I forged in life." 3. "His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it." 4. "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want." 5. "Hard and sharp as flint." 6. "I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man." 7. "Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce." 8. "A churchyard, overrun by weeds, the growth of vegetation's death not life - a worthy place!" 9. "Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten." 10. "The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground."
lots of these quotes would be able to relate to that question, such as showing scrooges change. they will never ask one specific ghost. if they ask about spirits, just write about what they represent or teach scrooge.
Another point for the 'Hard and sharp as Flint' quote: Flint can also be used to start fires, therefore suggesting that Scrooge has the potential to release the warmth that he is capable of producing later on in the play, when helped by the figurative light from the Ghost of Christmas Past's candle flame, or the warmth of Fezziwig or Fred towards Scrooge. This parallels the simile of Scrooge being as 'solitary as an oyster,' with the metaphorical pearl inside the oyster representing hope for Scrooge. These are effective uses of foreshadowing used by Dickens.
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Flint is actually easily chippable too even though it is very hard, suggesting how one has to chip away at all these different walls of parsimonious lifestyle and greed in order to reach Scrooge's true self
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"If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."
"I wear the chain I forged in life."
"His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it."
"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want."
"Hard and sharp as flint."
"I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man."
"Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce."
"A churchyard, overrun by weeds, the growth of vegetation's death not life - a worthy place!"
"Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten."
"The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground."
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@@highlyunjust how did it go? I'm currently in year 11 and will be doing my exams in May, wanted to know if these quotes helped or not...
@@iiaxshy dw this guy knows what hes on about, im doing lit this year as well and you just need enough quotes to analyse the entire plot summary, each quote in detailed analysis, so copy this guy👍
@@iiaxshyhow did it go?
Respect bro got my exams in a bit and needed to make them as accessible as possible
Here's a great interpretation with the Ignorance and Want quote: Dickens wrote in a patriachal society and wrote A Christmas Carol to combat Social Injustice and Equality. The boy, masculine, could represent the dominant male in Victorian society who made majority of the rich he was focusing on in the novel. The girl is feminine, subservient (less than men in society), and can represent the poor who want fair wages and better living conditions. Alternatively, women in this era were not typically educated, like the poor, and had less rights. Perhaps Dickens was also commenting on equality of women in society as well as the poor.
To good bro
so the patriarchal society is the word
@@j45p3r_2 the patriachal society is the undercurrent of social inequality through the social classes. The boy and girl can be interpreted as extensions of Christmas, innocent and still developing, although hidden beneath the 'foldings of its robe'. They act as a symbol of these underlying problems in victorian, christian society and also associate them with gender roles in that society.
how does that fit with Ignorance and Want explicitly? im stupid so
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Thank you sir, for all these videos. Tomorrow, Shakespeare, and a Christmas carol will finally come to an end, and wether i do wel or not, i love that you do all of this for us, and put so much blood, sweat and tears into the channel for us. I wish you a happy, healthy and long life. Thank you for one last time.
Edit: Ohhh my God! It went so well sir, thank you again, all because of you, and Mr Salles. You two deserve a nobel prize!
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There’s also 1 thing to add with the quote “If they would rather die, they better do it and decrease the surplus population”. In Victorian London, there was a politician called Malthus who said those exact words before the book was published 😂. You could also add some AO3 in there and mention the irony of it, And Dickens trying to mock Malthus. The funniest part is that Malthus died before the book was published 💀, if you wanna easier way of remembering it, you’re welcome!
goated context
According to Google he died 10 days after but yeah close enough
Oh my bad, but the points still the same. Thanks for the correction!
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I got it again on monday💀
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@@asavtripple6 imo this guy isnt very good, this persons defo exaggerating
@@sai-lh1ej I am being FULLY serious no joke
@@asavtripple6 not even joking, I have never passed my literature since year 7. I watched his video the day before the exam. Man I am FULLY serious he is amazing!!!!
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Bro you're such a legend, I just got my mock results for all the papers, and on A Christmas Carol I got 30/30 because of your interpretation with the dirtier snow on the ground, and the smoother cleaner snow on the roofs.
YOO WHAT I GOT 21/30 probably coz i wrote that too
what question type do we use this quote for tho?
We got a good 10 hours before exam just started revising
Who’s here 2 hours before the exam
Thank you so much ! I’m definitely going to use these in my gcse exam tomorrow
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Another point for the overgrown weeds in churchyard quote: The weeds symbolise Scrooge who took all the money but gave none - Caused a lot of people to suffer and weeds cause vegetation to suffer
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Your “hard and sharp as a flint” analysis helped me for today’s exam massively. I can’t appreciate this video enough, If I hadn’t watched it yesterday I would have probably wrote some super basic stuff😂
What was the question - it’s okay if you can’t remember
@@wijh6768did u find out?
@@wijh6768 it's was about how isolation and loneliness is presented
G - Good point
E - Evidence
E - Explanation
Z - zoom in
W - Writers intention
E - effect on reader
T - Tone
A - In addition
L - Link back to point
C - Context
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Got the exam tomorrow and I really hope this has helped me
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@@potati4097 felt quite good tbh, what exam board were you guys?
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Thank you so much! I just finished my march mocks and I went from getting 6's in english to 9's on both literature papers! Now I just gotta keep revising these videos for my real exams in May. Really good quotes and deep analysis.
did you have mocks beforehand? e.g. in November
my last mocks were in november, and i was told we'd have more - but we've had none
Great job! Well done
@@Jack-cf7wm Yes we had November and March mocks I think they do it since for us anyway in November we did Science paper 1's and English lit and lang paper 1 and then in the march all paper 2's
How many quotes did you learn per text?
@@Jack-cs3yb I'm not sure for instance my lit exam last mocks was inspector calls so I wanted to improve my analysis of the characters and what themes and and context they represent chosen by the writer.
I think I did about 3-5 for each character and then made a mindmap to unload those quotes I'd just looked at before the exam onto the paper.
At the end of the day you don't need to do the PEE structure of making a point and then backing it up with a quote because what they want is your ideas to show you've thought about the text in a deeper meaning. So give your idea and then what's lead you to that idea and that doesn't need to be a quote as it can be a reaccount of what happened or what they did to show evidence for your reasoning!
"If they would die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population,"
"I wear the chain i forged in life."
"His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it."
"This boy is ignorance. This girl is want."
"Hard and sharp as flint."
"I am light as a feather, Iam as happy as a angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man."
"A churchyard, overran by weeds, the growth of vegetation's death not like a worthy place!"
"Scrooge was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten."
"The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground."
Thank you so much
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nice but u missed out the cratchet one. he didnt put it up on the screen but it was there
“Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce."
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a good bit of context for the first quote is that he is echoing the words of Thomas Malthaus (a stirn renowned capitalist) which would perspiciously vilify Scrooge to his victorian proletariat readers
yes malthusian value
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Also u can write abt the fact that Dickens used to experience poverty as a child and how in almost all his texts he is describing people in poverty as goodhearted
Malthus thought the poor should just die out bc they can't provide anyways and there would be more food for the rich
i tried doing a comparison . This is what I wrote based of these quotes. Scrooge is illustrated as a redeemed character in Stave 5 when he feels 'as happy as an angel'. This simile depicts Scrooge as being close to God and perhaps hints at the fact that he was reborn with a sudden sense of social responsibility , 'I am quite a baby'. This completely juxtaposes stave 1 when Scrooge was 'hard and sharp as flint' .This simile is employed by Dickens in order to make Scrooge seem impenetratable and highly isolated from God . Furthermore some connotations to the adjective 'hard' are 'rigid' and 'compact' . The connotation of 'rigid' along with the adjective 'sharp' sets Scrooge out as dangerous for the lower class due to his capitalist views and Misanthropic due to his avarice which is suggested by the fact that Bob's fire ' was very much smaller'. Dickens employs this juxtaposition in order to teach us that anyone , no matter their personality can change their fate by a simple act of good will such as donating to charities. Dickens would of known this because as a child he too grew in poverty and would of wanted a stronger sense of social responsibility. Hope you like it. ( I am predicted a 6 so I am not the best lol)
isnt that too many quotes in one paragraph
Lol so bad
None of it flows
Different correlating quotes u are good at english could be a grade 7
Great attempt but there are simply too many quotes you are using which is not recommended. I’d recommend that you pick a single PUNCHY quote and analyse that. I’d also recommend that you should talk about the word choices first and the connotations of these word choices and later move onto the language techniques and structural techniques used( make sure to talk about the effect of these techniques on the reader or on their text) and then possibly talk about sentence structures and highlight their influence on the text. After this, talk about the tone and talk about the context and how the techniques and words you just analysed relates to the context and make sure to answer the question(the answer must be related to what your analysis is lol) and that’s all I can remember from the back of my head lol. Ofc we can’t do all these steps in the time allocated(maybe you can) so try to do most of these steps for each paragraph and that should ensure you a higher mark. Hopefully we all do well :)
No "Solitary as an Oyster"?
An oyster is presented as having a rough and rigid exterior which is fragile - metaphorical of Scrooge's own fragility by being an outcast among society. People don't even want to talk to him "with gladsome looks", even the "blind dogs" avoid him. The adjective "solitary" further support this, conveying how Scrooge feels trapped within this oyster - unable to reveal himself comfortably.
However, the oyster is also symbolic of the pure qualities that Scrooge has retained, but afraid to open up (an oyster closing and opening). Inside the oyster is the pearl. This pearl can be represented as the remaining parts of dignity he has left. Scrooge doesn't want to open up and reveal his true self to anyone, as a result of his lack of fatherhood, and being a "solitary child, neglected by his friends".
although it is a good quote, my english teacher said its over used and suggested us not to use it, so im not sure
@@vias6726 it's still a good quote and they can't ignore your point just because it's overused
its pretty similar to the flint quote which might be why
u could link it to that in one paragraph as they have many parallels
one point that I have to make is that although this video was informative the main criticism was not of capitalism, which is by no means evil but instead a system used to achieve economic stability rooted in the cultures of ancient trade. Dickens was criticising the Malthusian economic theory which a huge influence at the time and contributed to the huge amount of deaths in the Irish potato famine and encouraged general selfishness off the basis that the earths supplies are limited and helping the poor would only increase the surplus population.
Would just like to say that your videos are really helping me. By the way, this isn't last minute revision! You're videos are just giving me an extra push towards the exams. The quotes are really helpful as you don't have to memorize the whole story but by remembering the quotes, it helps a lot and it shows that you understand the story even if you don't. I watched your videos: An inspector calls and Macbeth and really felt they helped. Hopefully this extra push helps as don't want to be retaking English! In the first paper i really struggled and felt that i needed help for the upcoming exams and found you, don't regret it!
Revising less then 2 hours before my exam
I love the way you explain it! This is fantastic
nah I'm not clever enough to think about so much from a single quotation
currently cramming for my exam tomorrow!
Why are there no quotes on the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future??
Your a legend when I done my first mock I got a grade 1 after I watched your video I got grade 4
for the last quote, i want to infer more on the white snow on the roof and the dirtier snow on the ground.
When winter ends, the sun will melt away both the snow on the roof and the snow on the ground and the sun could be symbolic for God and how he is equal, how when you die you leave behind every intrinsic physical value you had, and perhaps you could use this to show how the rich may be above the poor for a season (life) but God is above them all for all seasons (forever).
Dickens could be reasserting religion back into the 19th century and could also be warning us to demolish the Great Divide, not conform to the ideologies of capitalism and help others as much as we can.
hey sir, im loving your videos, they are helping me out so much. However, I have a question about the quote "I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy, I am as giddy as a drunken man." do you think that each of these could be referring to a past event in the story? with "drunken man" being the men on the boat, "An angel" being his dead sister, "a school boy" being himself when he was with Fezziwig and "a feather" referring to the quote "on the wings of the wind" showing how scrooge can now be swept up by god into heaven and not be trapped like the other ghosts in stave 1. Its just a thought that I had but I'm not sure if it would actually get me any marks, thankyou.
Yess definitely do you mind if i steal that idea lol
@@myalicksblackballs go ahead, I’m glad that I have helped
@@dragonrider1279 thanks so much. It’s a great analysis. Definitely use it. I love it good luck tomorrow you’ll do amazing. If you have any other interpretations you’d wanna share i wouldnt mind hearing them 😭jk
@@myalicksblackballs that’s about it to be honest. All of my 2 brain cells were used thinking of that. Good luck as well for tomorrow, your gonna do great.
@@dragonrider1279 thanksss. Update me after the test on how it went :)
Only person who made me understand the ignorance vs want quote.. THANKYOU
Same 😃
THANKS FOR GETTING ME A 9 in The mock 👊🏽
POV u just watch this before ur exams
morning before the exam and i know shit all
Same
How u do ??
Not me just last minute scavenging for anything else to help me with my exam 😅
Can someone give the techniques for each quote?
you forgot to change the text on the cratchit family quote
This is coming in clutch for my mocks
I I just wanted to say thank you, because of you I got a 7 for my English language and an 8 for English literature 💓💓💓💓
Well done
@@Faithjohnson3467 revise alot alot and be naturally smart
@@Faithjohnson3467 same!! The highest I’ve ever gotten was a 6, and idek how I did that. I need to be getting 6/7 and I’m getting 4/5
saving me for my exam tmr 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you so much for this. It is a life saver
Another link to context for the surplus population quote could be malthusianism because it was a common ideology among many “bad capitalists” at the time
I am gonna memorize only these 10 quotes as i trust you
how did it go
When your watching this minutes before you mock
Can u give the reference of the quote as in which stave
I actually have my mock in 3 hours 😅
More about the 'if they would rather die' quote, it is a jab to a popular viewpoint at the time from a man named Thomas Malthus with the malthusian viewpoint, thinking that the poor, destitute and disabled are better to be dead because they don't help society.
The first quote could also connotate tot the malthusian theory
gcses in 2 weeks lads
Got the ACC exam in like an hour so this gotta help me 😭
haahhaha i got mine tomorrow morning at 9. its a mock
@@ibblebobblwblackbobble8385 good luck man, I passed the English exam, not an A but good enough, worth revising.
"If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."
"I wear the chain I forged in life."
"His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it."
"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want."
"Hard and sharp as flint."
"I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man."
"A churchyard, overrun by weeds, the growth of vegetation's death not life - a worthy place!"
"Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten."
"The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground."
hi sir, can you please do one of these videos for blood brothers, it would be so usefull!! your christmas carol and macbeth has saved me so muchh!!
23:37 night before exam, wish me luck
Hard and sharp as filnt ... Filnt can be used to start fires and fires suggest anger so Scrooge needs to release that anger he is holding in
Thanks man, tbh I know some quotes it’s just that we have to say what techniques it uses and all that nonsense
It could also be that he could spread warmth to others and redeem himself, use however to add this point.
Hello, sir can you please do this for blood brother
HI I just realised I'm watching this video exactly after 2 years. btw I got mock exams next week so thanks for the useful content
same bro good luck
how does this guy not have a mill yet bro
Update: after my lit exam, I can glady say this saved my ass 😭 I used so many of these points, THANK YOUU
can i have themes for each quote?
I find all the videos so helpful! Thank you so much. I'm studying Of mice and men for my wjec gcse in the morning. I'm in year 10.
Lucky my school doesn't do mice and men
Wait you are doing gcse in year 10
@@hanifali1216 you learn 3/5 the content in yr 10 and do mocks the other 2/5 in yr 11 then spend the rest of ur time doing mocks and revising
Which quotes include structure?? Help please!!
thx this will help
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I love this man! It saddens me to know that this is the last video I will watch from him as I have the normal thought that Literature is utterly, disgustingly retched.
U in year 11?
When you realise that he only said 9 quotes and not 10
😂 is that true? If so I apologise 👍
pretty sure he did 10 but forgot to edit one
"Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce."
3:49 same i wear it so I can keep my dogs tag on my at all times, he gave me luck in my mocks hopefully he’ll give me luck in these 🤞🤞
that’s so cute, good luck
@@beanietord482 Thank you! I feel like it went well, hopefully my final grade shows that 😂
Thank you, could you do an inspector calls?
Yea he is in 2 weeks
Bro started violating scrooge
9:21 the boy representing ignorance suggests that in the 19 th centuries patriarchal society views men as the people who influenced the society and have the most power
hi thanks a lot for these videos they're really helpful!
i wanted to ask if anyone has any predictions for what our question could be for this year for A Christmas Carol? ?(As in whether you think it'll be more likely to be a theme based or a character based question) honestly, i don't expect many replies as i'm guessing we all know as much as each other but anything would be helpful :)
im not too sure but im guessing its gonna be a theme question bc ACC tends to be more theme questions but idk sorry 😭
I don't thinknit matters since characters portray themes so you can answer each question interchangeable. I found that revising the characters also made me revise the themes. This is also the case for An Inspector Calls.
How Scrooge's attitude towards the Cratchit's changes throughout the novella
Gcse absolutely dying i hv no idea on this im hella hoping at least 4 of there i can use
Hi Sir can you kindly make a video on The poetry devices. Thanks.
Bro got me a grade 7 in my mock idek how 🤣🤣
So glad I found this😅
you're also here good luck
2 hours to go 🙂
This dude is the actual goat
Im giving up on english lit paper 1 atp
Hey sir, one of the past literature questions was about Scrooge's fears. Out of these 10 which ones can I use for that essay?
one of the best ones are probably "I wear the chain I forged in life" because Marley is spreading fear to Scrooge for his redemtion
@@algebruh7695 or "your chain was as long and ponderous as thing seven christmas eves ago" something like that. Its more directed to scrooge to fear him.
@Algebruh @ahmed! thankss
@@ahmed-music-prod Scrooge doesn't want to end up like Marley chained up for life so fear motivates him to change.
@@isaacmorgan8293 yeah
Hi Mr Everything English can you put this video in A Christmas Carol RUclips playlists please and new A Christmas Carols videos in the playlists too please 🙏
What quotes could be used for Fred and the Cratchits, I can't find many that are detailed enough for one paragraph
I love this man sm thank you
please do power and conflict poetry??!!
Can someone help me with giving methods for each quote, this is where i struggle and the ACT numbers
1. "If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."
2. "I wear the chain I forged in life."
3. "His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it."
4. "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want."
5. "Hard and sharp as flint."
6. "I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man."
7. "Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce."
8. "A churchyard, overrun by weeds, the growth of vegetation's death not life - a worthy place!"
9. "Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten."
10. "The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground."
Do you not have to do a quote for the ghosts ?! Like what if the question was based of the spirits?! :)
lots of these quotes would be able to relate to that question, such as showing scrooges change. they will never ask one specific ghost. if they ask about spirits, just write about what they represent or teach scrooge.
so helpful thank you
sir is sickk at teaching