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What does the chain represent in this excerpt from chapter 1 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?

"You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"

"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, a yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?"

Scrooge trembled more and more.

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A. the link between life and death
B. forgiveness and redemption
C. the consequences of choices
D. fate versus free will

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B.) forgiveness and redemption.
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It’s b because he felt fettered
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