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how does Charles Dickens create a sense of antipathy for Scrooge in the opening of ‘A Christmas Carol’?
How does Charles Dickens create a sense of antipathy for Scrooge in the opening of ‘A Christmas Carol’? This if for my english coursework which I am doing now in year 11. If anyone could help me, please feel free to do so, as I am in desperate need of it being handed in next Thursday! In the first paragraph it read: Marley is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Now I have to figure out how this paragraph makes us antipathy (Dislike) Scrooge. What is mentioned in this paragraph that can make us, the readers dislike him, there’s nothing. Please help me. 10 Points for the best answer
Read on a bit:
‘Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge. a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. ‘
Errrm… You HAVE read the book, I presume?t
