Name: _Key___________________________________________________ Hour: __________
Title of Story: __A Christmas Carol: Scrooge & Marley___________________________ Author: _Charles Dickens adapted by Israel Horovitz
Literary Elements
Purpose (circle one):
to entertain
to inform
to explain
to persuade
Point of View (circle one):
1st person Marley's voice
2nd person
3rd limited
rd
3 omniscient
Mood:
Genre & Subgenre:
Fiction or non-fiction (circle one)
Theme/s:
Redemption, Family, Love, Hope, Joy which comes
at Christmas (special time) Kindness
Society help to those in need
Beginning of the play is one of suspense
with Christmas Eve and the presentation of
Marley's ghost and the scene at the cemetery.
By the end it is one of hope and happiness.
Subgenre/s: Play - Drama
Conflict (circle one):
man vs. man
man vs. nature
man vs. self
man vs. society
man vs. machine
man vs. supernatural
Diction:
Conversational - Victorian Period
England
Conflict:
Man vs. Man - Scrooge is in a conflict with himself at
Christmastime when he sees what he has become. He
is a stingy, greedy, and lonely man. Christmas is
waste of his time and money.
Antagonist:
Protagonist:
Who: Scrooge
Dynamic or static? (circle one)
Why?
Scrooge will change from someone obsessed
with making money to one of compassion
for fellow man.
Who: Scrooge
Dynamic or static? (circle one)
Why?
Scrooge's conscience is represented by Marley
Tone:
Author has a serious tone thru most of the play
with some humor.
Setting (place, time, culture)
Christmas eve
London
about 1843
Victorian England
Secondary Characters:
Who: Bob Cratchit, Fred, Marley and various
ghosts, Tiny Tim
Moral:
There is more to life than money.
Kindness can make major positive changes.
Treat others as we hope to be treated.
Symbolism
Beliefs of Scrooge
Beliefs of Fred and Bob Cratchit
Marley's chains - money Girl Want - Necessities
Boy Ignorance - the uneducated
Foreshadowing
Literary Elements
Climax
* He is left at his future grave in terror.
Marley's says the change in the
coat from gray to red end of
Act I
Marley's monologue at Act 1 - Sc 1
Doorknocker ghost
End of Act 1 Sc 5 - Marley's last line
Scrooge hates Christmas - Bob asks for the day off
Rising Actions
Exposition
* Characters: Scrooge, Marley, Cratchit and
Fred
* Goes home to find the ghost of Marley who speaks of the ghosts
to come as a warning
* Ghost from the Past & Present show him happy memories and
how his attitude now affects the present
Resolution
* True to his word he treats
Bob Cratchit better with
raise
* The Ghost of Christmas Future shows him people robbing his
clothes, businessmen laughing of his death, Tiny Tim's demise.
* Setting - Countinghouse of Scrooge, Christmas
Eve day, London
Falling Actions
* Offers to care for Tiny
Wakes
Christmas
morning
to
realize
he
has
a
chance
*
Tim
to do good. He sends for prize turkey for the Cratchits.
* Point-of-view - Marley's Ghost and the dialogue
of the characters - play
* Donates to the poor.
* Goes to dinner at Fred's