Themes in A Christmas Carol
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- Created on: 18-03-20 12:23
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- Themes
- Christmas
- The title and structure
- Uses 5 staves rather than chapters
- Reflect the structure of a carol
- Link the story to the joy of singing
- The title refers to the traditional carols sung at Christmas time
- Uses 5 staves rather than chapters
- Scrooge's nephew, Fred
- Cheerful approach to Christmas
- Dickens shows Fred as the opposite of Scrooge
- Fred enjoys the company of his friends
- Tiny Tim
- Importance of family and love
- "escorted by his brother and sister"
- Well-loved by his family
- His siblings show him generosity
- The title and structure
- Redemption
- Error of his ways
- "hesr his own words quoted by the spirit"
- S feels ashamed
- S begins to wish he could change
- Dickens uses the GoC Present to show S how unpleasant his behaviour has been
- "hesr his own words quoted by the spirit"
- Miserable
- S rejects all offers of Christmas cheer
- "Christmas a humbug,"
- Rejecting all the compassion and celebration
- Redeemed
- "His own heart laughed:"
- S becomes full and generous of life
- Welcomed into the homes of his family
- Friends are delighted by his transformation
- S is a new man when he finally awakes on Christmas day
- "His own heart laughed:"
- Error of his ways
- Social injustice
- S refuses to give money
- Represents the selfshness of the richer elements of Victorian society
- Dickens highlights the injustice of wealth distribution
- Ignorance and Want
- Two wretched children to present the poor
- Are the responsibility of all mankind
- "pinched" & "twisted"
- Rather than happy and joyous
- Not how we would like children to be
- Thieves dividing up S's belongings
- Shows how his death is received
- Thieves comment on how miserly he'd been
- The failings of only thinking of oneself
- S refuses to give money
- Christmas
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