Across
- 3. Which emotional posture most clearly defines Scrooge’s attitude toward social suffering?
- 5. What suppressed emotion breaks through Scrooge’s practiced rationality during Marley’s visitation?
- 6. Which adjective best encapsulates Scrooge’s moral deficiency and emotional austerity at the opening of the novella?
- 10. Which external force mirrors the internal frigidity that characterizes Scrooge’s worldview?
- 11. KNOCKER Which mundane feature takes on Marley’s likeness, foreshadowing the intrusion of the supernatural?
- 12. What physical substance does Dickens use metaphorically to emphasize the extent of Scrooge’s “coldness”?
- 14. The holiday celebration Scrooge finds wasteful and “a time for paying bills.”
- 16. What adjective both literally and figuratively characterizes Scrooge’s workplace atmosphere?
- 21. What term reinforces Marley’s liminal state between the material world and the afterlife?
- 22. What punitive structure does Scrooge cite to dismiss charitable responsibility toward the needy?
- 23. Which condition functions as the emotional consequence of Scrooge’s self-imposed isolation?
- 24. Currency used when Scrooge counts the price of coal over human comfort.
- 27. What natural image Dickens invokes repeatedly becomes a metaphor for emotional immobility?
- 30. What harsh social institution is invoked as a rational “solution” for the suffering masses?
- 31. Which descriptor of Marley’s ghost emphasizes the seriousness of moral reckoning?
Down
- 1. Which narrative function does Marley’s visit primarily perform within the structure of Stave 1?
- 2. The practice Scrooge rejects underscores his refusal to recognize shared humanity?
- 4. What business tool functions as an emblem of Scrooge’s fixation on profit over compassion?
- 7. Whose death frames the opening and establishes the story’s meditation on legacy and accountability?
- 8. Which concept Scrooge demands from Marley reflects his reliance on empirical reasoning over moral perception?
- 9. What symbolic burden embodies Marley’s self-forged consequences of greed?
- 10. Institutions Scrooge cites to avoid charitable giving, symbolizing systemic cruelty.
- 11. What ordinary object becomes a comic anchor for Dickens’s insistence upon Marley’s death?
- 13. Which redemptive possibility seems remote for Marley but remains open for Scrooge?
- 15. Which psychological response Scrooge initially experiences toward Marley’s apparition complicates the boundary between reason and fear?
- 16. HOUSE What workplace setting underscores Scrooge’s identity as defined solely by commercial activity?
- 17. What act Marley insists upon for Scrooge is already impossible for himself?
- 18. What supernatural entity returns to confront Scrooge’s moral blindness?
- 19. What ordinary object becomes uncanny, signaling the shift from realism to the supernatural?
- 20. GRATE The office heat source that contrasts Scrooge’s cold temperament.
- 25. Which dismissive exclamation reduces human joy to foolish sentimentality?
- 26. Which cheerful relation represents familial warmth and a counterpoint to Scrooge’s isolation?
- 28. What role does Bob Cratchit occupy that reveals the exploitative labor dynamic in Scrooge’s office?
- 29. What ordinary commodity becomes a symbol of economic control and emotional deprivation?