In celebration of the most wonderful story ever told! For anyone who wants to engage in discussion around the text, or is as obsessed with it as I am! 🎄 ❄️ 🕯
Apr 24, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In Stave 2 of ACC, when Scrooge notices that the spirit is making towards the window as a means to transport him to the Past, he 'clasp(s) his robe in supplication' & 'remonstrate(s)' that he is 'mortal and liable to fall'. And for me, this is everything. 😭 1/
Not only does this reflect Scrooge's approach to life - his unwillingness to take risks, to trust others, to venture outside of the patterns & routines of his every-day life, but it also suggests that his understanding does not (as yet) extend beyond the physical world... 2/
Jan 17, 2021 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
FAN AND TIM
A thread 👇🏼
Upon a recent reading of the novella, something occurred to me.
And that something was that there appears to be somewhat of a parallel between the characters of Fan and Tim. 1/
Dec 20, 2020 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
Hands in 'A Christmas Carol'... 🤚🏻
A thread 👇🏼
When we are first introduced to Scrooge, we are told that he was a 'tightfisted hand at the grindstone' followed by a lovely list of seemingly greed-induced verbs: he squeezes; wrenches; scrapes; covets. His hands are used to keep all that he has to and with himself. 1/
Nov 17, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Why can Scrooge see Marley that night, when Marley had "sat invisible beside (him) many and many a day"?
A THREAD 👇🏼
First of all. Marley was dead. Dickens makes that very clear. He also makes clear that no good can come of what Dickens is about to relay if it is not distinctly understood that Marley was dead.
And so, let any man explain to me, if he will, how Scrooge came to see Marley. 1/
Oct 24, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Let's talk about BELLS 🔔 🔔 🔔
***a thread***
Bells have long been used throughout history - to celebrate, to warn, to commemorate, & to communicate. One of the most prominent connections with bells has been in relation to death and dying - - 1/
The passing bell (mentioned in Wilfred Owen's infamous poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth') was rung immediately after death as a signal for prayer. "What passing bells for these who die as cattle?" Owen wrote - 2/
Aug 24, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
@MeronpanChan@greeborunner Absolutely! The hardness of the oyster shell encases a pearl/ deeper wisdom within; the hardness of flint may appear to be it's main attribute, but it has the ability to bring warmth (fire 🔥). I think it goes back to Dickens' message(s) around childhood. 1/@MeronpanChan@greeborunner We each have the essence of who and what we truly are. It is our parents' responsibility in the first instance(possibly even society's - interesting when coupled with the 'second father' ref in Stave5)to nurture & love our children, so that that true (good) essence is retained.2/
Jun 29, 2020 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
What better way to start the week than a little thread - on FIRE! 1/17
Fire is certainly used as a prominent image in Dickens’ novella, and is revisited regularly throughout the text.
In Stave 1, we are presented with the fact that Scrooge’s fire was ‘very small’, and Bob’s ‘so very much smaller’. 2/17
Jun 21, 2020 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Happy Fathers’ Day to you all. On this day, of all days, let’s take a moment to talk about FATHERHOOD in ACC. 1/18
Stave 1 Scrooge would probably carry the same distaste for Fathers’ Day as he did for Christmas! That’s if it were a ‘thing’ in Victorian England (which it was not - it wasn’t celebrated in the UK until the 1970s, and in 1908 in the US). 2/18
Jun 3, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
“I am as light as a feather”.
Let’s talk about - HEAVINESS & LIGHTNESS.
And MAKING LINKS WITHIN TEXTS. 1/9
This beautiful excerpt, taken from Stave 5, presents the reader with a new & redeemed Scrooge! Up he gets, full of the agility that we see in ‘Old Fezziwig’ (Stave 2 - no coincidence, I’m sure!) - and in great contrast to the stiff gait of Scrooge at the start of the novella. 2/9
