ACC - Vocabulary for Analysis
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- Created on: 27-03-19 18:02
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- ACC
- ‘gloomy suite of rooms’
- melancholy personification
- describes Scrooge’s house
- mock the suggestion that happiness is gained from money
- Positive portrayal of Scrooge’s moral awakening allows Dickens to present an optimistic message
- ‘Oh glorious! Glorious!’
- Joy to be found in redemption
- ‘Oh glorious! Glorious!’
- Dickens’s childhood - first-hand experience of grim reality of poverty in Victorian England
- Father sent to debtor’s prison - Dickens childhood working in factory.
- Dickens passionately campaigned throughout life for social change on issues like child poverty & treatment of women
- Harshly represented in his stories
- ACC= hypercritical text, written to raise awareness of child poverty
- Harshly represented in his stories
- Industrial revolution -urbanization - overcrowded, hunger, disease.
- Malthus - believed poverty was result of over-population & poor families shouldn't be allowed to have children.
- Dickens appalled by Malthus theory. Instead attacked selfishness of rich who were unwilling to share their wealth
- Dickens rejected Christian beliefs (saw as cold & unforgiving). Instead, he saw religiosity in Christmas spirit & compassion for others
- Story = optimistic as it's an allegory of redemption. Scrooge forgiven for past sins & becomes new, better, man.
- Extended sensory imagery - portray Scrooge as selfish old miser who lacks charitable feeling & is self-seeking
- Fred serves to act as extreme contrast to Scrooge in his kindness towards man, symbolised by his infectious Christmas spirit
- Jacob Marley recognises too late his business shouldn't be economical but instead kind and spiritual
- Comical portrayal of Scrooge as lonely boy allows reader to see he is product of his environment so can be redeemed
- Symbolism surrounding Ghost Present shows Xmas as time of joy & festivity, encouraging Scoge;'s desire to change
- Sentimental & Romantic depiction of Cratchits gives nameless many a face for reader to sympathise with. Cratchits are grateful for what they have despite heavy burden of poverty.
- Future shown by future ghost shows the risks of life ill-spent & acts as warning to those who don’t embrace love & community.
- Scrooge’s awakening (Stave 5) = both literal & figurative. Shows joy of redemption & spiritual transformation
- Use of omniscient narrator allows Dickens to offer reader romanticised vision of future where Scrooge = charitable & compassionate + is rewarded - family and friends -Thus lives metaphorically rich life.
- ‘gloomy suite of rooms’
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