Top 10 Quotes: A Christmas Carol (2024 Edition)

guys welcome to another video you've got

me to everything English and in today's

video it is a super important video

Because by the end of this video you

will hopefully never ever have to type

in the words key quotes from A Christmas

Carol in Google ever again because in

this one video I will give you the top

10 quotes from a Christmas car not 40

not 50 not 100 but 10 because I have

always advised that if you learn 10 good

quality quotes you're set for your exams

because the quotes we're going to go

through can be used for multiple themes

multiple characters multiple questions

because that is the trick of learning

quotes nobody has time to be learning 30

40 quotes per book because we're then

looking at plus 100 quotes that's too

much now if your teacher says to you

that you should be learning 40 or 50

then do what you got to do but I advise

you guys if you learn 10 quality quotes

with the right language with the right

structure with the right form with the

right context and that is what I'm going

to give you in this video then you're

set so my advice is this guys get your

pen get your paper make notes of the 10

quotes as I go along and my analysis of

them so by the end of this video if you

work alongside what I'm doing your notes

for your quotes are done and then all

you do at the end of this video is

dedicate a couple of hours to learning

these quotes off by heart all right guys

Christmas Carol top 10 quotes everything

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science number one we are looking at the

famous quote Scrooge is described as

being solitary as an oyster now what do

we do when we look at this quote first

let's pick out the language devices here

we have a simile and then I want you

guys to talk about the oyster being

symbolic and then we have the adjective

solitary now this is the language and

you know what let's do a bit of

structure and you can also argue guys

that this quote is foreshadowing so when

it comes to language and when it comes

to structure you're covered we have

enough here we have enough techniques

now that this quote is worth using it's

not a dead quote it's got a simile it's

got symbolism it's got an adjective and

it's got foreshadowing all things that

we can talk about now let's analyze the

quote and look at what exactly is this

quote talking about so guys when we look

at solitary solitary guys is the idea of

somebody being alone but solitary isn't

voluntary for example when you speak

about a prison ER you speak about a

prisoner being in solitary confinement

so the loneliness here it almost is

implied that it's a forced type of

loneliness Scrooge is lonely Scrooge is

confined to himself but it implies that

this isn't voluntary something has

forced him to become like this and this

is why the oyster is so important this

is why the oyster is lovely now first

guys the oyster what is it a symbol of

now I want you guys to bring bring in

the context here of capitalism

capitalism is the belief that money and

yourself are the two most important

things that's why it produces characters

in our text like Mr Burling like Scrooge

like Mrs Burling and so on now how can

the oyster be a symbol of capitalism

within the oyster is the Pearl guys

within the oyster is the Pearl that

Pearl is Scrooge that's who he is

however the real Scrooge has become

encapsulated the real Scrooge has been

covered by this oyster so you can't find

him you don't know where he is so what

do the ghosts come and do the ghosts

they crack they crack they crack this

oyster until Scrooge is revealed to be

the beautiful soft man that his nature

really is but it's been dest destroyed

it's been ruined he's been forced into

this oyster by capitalism that's where

you link the calls because of his belief

that money is the most important thing

he hates poor people because of his

belief that he is the most important

person he hates having to engage with

family and friends not that he has much

but you get my point so you want to

argue guys that Scrooge based upon that

adjective solitary he is forced into

loneliness but this forced comes through

the oyster which symbolizes capitalism

and that is why when the ghosts crack

and crack and crack they reveal the soft

exterior and this is where the

foreshadowing comes because this quote

foreshadows that there is a chance that

Scrooge will change because we know that

within the oyster is the beautiful pearl

which is Scrooge waiting to come out

that is how you want to analyze this

quote

do you see guys how the first thing we

did is we did our checks is this quote

worth analyzing has it got language tick

has it got structure even more for bonus

has it got context yes and then we

produce our analysis now guys this quote

can be used for questions about Scrooge

it can even be used about questions

about the Supernatural and Redemption

because it shows us how difficult it is

to change a being because the shell of

capitalism the shell of oyster the

oyster is so strong that is why the

ghosts the supernatural were

needed other forces were needed to

destroy this oyster so you've got the

character of Scrooge you've got a

question about Redemption that it can be

used for it can be used for a question

about the Supernatural and finally guys

it can also be used about a question on

the theme of the impact of society

what is the impact of society on our

character guys he lives like a prisoner

but he doesn't even know it and remember

this is an amazing point if you actually

think about it look at all the people

that live out in the world today

everyone thinks they're free I think I'm

free you think you're free but sometimes

there's a big argument that comes along

that we're not really free you only feel

your chains the moment you begin to move

look at checking out my history look at

all these other text freedom is a

fallacy Scrooge believed that his money

gave him power and freedom but the

moment the cracks began to appear he

realized hold on I've got money but I've

got no family I've got money but I've

got no love I've got money but I have

nothing else so guys that's how you want

to use this quote one quote but look how

many ways ways we can apply I wear the

chain I forged in life now the first two

quotes you've heard them a thousand

times but let's now go through this one

again I wear the chain I forged in life

now guys let's use red for our language

I really love the verb here guys the

verb forged I love the symbolism of the

chain because it's not a it's not a I

don't know duara make Chains It's not a

designer chain it's a different kind of

chain this chain is symbolic of

something far deeper and then guys you

can maybe argue there's a brief

flashback here notice what I'm doing

every quote I'm giving you or I'm trying

to give you language and structural

devices now this one quote I want us to

link it to form and we're going to link

it eventually to the gothic

genre all right guys let's now talk

about this quote I love this

quote accountability is what this quote

is looking

at you finally realized damn I messed

up but because you never realized it

whilst you were alive because you never

realized all the all the sin and all the

trouble you caused while you alive while

you were alive now you are paying for

your sins you are paying for for your

crimes not not legal crimes moral crimes

so now I we now we can even talk about

the verb we if you really wanted to but

what are we saying about something being

worn why is he wearing this chain why

isn't I don't know I carry a I carry a

book in my pocket that shows me I messed

up guys him wearing a chain I would

argue is two points number one it's a