Stave 1
Transformation and redemption
⛁ “No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him” - Narrator
⛁ “I wear the chain I forged in life…I girded it on of my own free will.” - Marley
⛁ “Mankind was my business” - Marley
⛁ “Incessant torture of remorse” - Marley
⛁ “No space of regret can make amends for one’s life opportunity misused” - Marley
⛁ “The misery with them all was that they sought to interfere, for good, in human
matters, and had lost the power forever” - Narrator
Social injustice, class systems, wealth/greed
⛁ “What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.” - Scrooge
⛁ “What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.” - Fred
⛁“There are many things from which I may have derived good, by which I have not
profited” - Fred
⛁ “Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses?” - Scrooge
⛁ “Decrease the surplus population” - Scrooge
⛁ “His wealth is of no use to him” - Fred
, Stave 1
Family, relationships, generosity, Christmas Spirit
⛁ “Scrooge was [Marley’s] sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee,
his soul friend, and sole mourner.” - Narrator
⛁ “I have always thought of of Christmas time…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant
time” - Fred
⛁ “[The clerk] cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge” - Narrator
⛁ “I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute” - Fred
⛁ “My clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a
merry Christmas” - Scrooge
⛁ “I can’t afford to make idle people merry” - Scrooge
Transformation and redemption
⛁ “No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him” - Narrator
⛁ “I wear the chain I forged in life…I girded it on of my own free will.” - Marley
⛁ “Mankind was my business” - Marley
⛁ “Incessant torture of remorse” - Marley
⛁ “No space of regret can make amends for one’s life opportunity misused” - Marley
⛁ “The misery with them all was that they sought to interfere, for good, in human
matters, and had lost the power forever” - Narrator
Social injustice, class systems, wealth/greed
⛁ “What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.” - Scrooge
⛁ “What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.” - Fred
⛁“There are many things from which I may have derived good, by which I have not
profited” - Fred
⛁ “Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses?” - Scrooge
⛁ “Decrease the surplus population” - Scrooge
⛁ “His wealth is of no use to him” - Fred
, Stave 1
Family, relationships, generosity, Christmas Spirit
⛁ “Scrooge was [Marley’s] sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee,
his soul friend, and sole mourner.” - Narrator
⛁ “I have always thought of of Christmas time…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant
time” - Fred
⛁ “[The clerk] cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge” - Narrator
⛁ “I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute” - Fred
⛁ “My clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a
merry Christmas” - Scrooge
⛁ “I can’t afford to make idle people merry” - Scrooge
