A Christmas Carol

What are the motifs in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?

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Temperature is a motif. In the early stages of the play Scrooge is associated with the idea of cold. It is cold in his counting house, it is cold in his flat, he is a cold character. Scrooge's nephew Fred is juxtaposed with Scrooge's cold: Fred is warm. Fred's home is warm and full of life, Fred's personality is warm......