Christmas Spirit
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- Created on: 31-03-17 17:23
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- Christmas Spirit
- Time when people 'open up their shut-up hearts freely'
- Characters show Christmas by being...
- Kind
- Charitable
- with a good will
- Generous
- Characters show Christmas by being...
- Cratchits
- celebrations show love for one another
- Bob is disappointed when he is told Martha isn't coming for christmas
- Importance of family at Christmas
- Fred
- Christmas is a ' kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time'
- hopes Scrooge will get into the Christmas spirit
- Christmas should encourage people to 'think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave'
- Rich and poor should unite
- Contrast to Scrooge who questions how Fred can be merry when he is 'poor enough'
- Fred and Scrooge echo one another with their contrasting views - Fred comments that Scrooge is 'rich enough' to be merry
- Ghost of Christmas Present
- 'Cheery voice'
- 'joyful air'
- personifies desired qualities at Christmas
- Symbol of transforming power at Christmas - restores 'good humour' through the incense from his torch.
- Many characters help people less fortunate than themselves
- Charity collectors
- 'want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices'
- try to provide 'Christian cheer'
- poverty is made most obvious by the excess enjoyed by the wealthy
- Fezziwig
- Generosity and kindness
- has the power to make his apprentices 'happy or unhappy' and make their work, 'light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil' and he chooses to behave in a way that brings happiness.
- Throws a Christmas party which exhibitys joy throughout.
- Charity collectors
- Most of what Dickens says is related to Christianity
- helping others is an important part of a persons faith.
- Secular side
- Childish excitement surrounding Christmas at Fred's house and Fezziwigs party. Also a hint at Cratchit's house
- Links childish behaviour to Christianity as it's, 'good to be children sometimes' especially at Christmas as the 'mighty founder was a child himself' (Jesus)
- Scrooge
- Initially he hates Christmas
- 'Humbug'
- Thinks that anyone who enjoys Christmas is an 'idiot'
- Fred's party and Cratchit's house
- 'Ogre of the family'
- 'a dark shadow at the party'
- Transforms
- wishes everyone a 'Merry Christmas'
- makes a large donation to charity
- Buys large turkey for Cratchits
- Attends Fred's party
- promises to 'honour Christmas' and will 'try to keep it all the year'
- Initially he hates Christmas
- Suggests that the spirit of Christmas is important all year round
- Ghost of Christmas past
- Carries winter holly
- 'trimmed with summer flowers'
- Ignorance and Want (children)
- These will still exist when Christmas is over
- Remember the less fortunate all year round
- Ghost of Christmas past
- Context!!!!
- Time when people 'open up their shut-up hearts freely'
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