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Themes
Transformation / Redemption
AQA 2019: Explore how Dickens uses the ghosts to help Scrooge change his behaviour. Extract (Visit of Marley's Ghost)
Relevant Quotes:
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'Solitary as an oyster' -> 'His own heart laughed'(Simile + Personification)
Through the simile in the first stave to the personification in the last, we see the transformation of scrooge from this close and cold-hearted character to someone who embodies joy and happiness. this dramatic transformation from being "solitary" to "laughing" shows the possibility of redemption.
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'He tried to say 'humbug' but stopped at the first syllable' (Repetition (of humbug))
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'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy'(List of Similes)
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'I am prepared to bear your company and do it with a thankful heart' (Metaphor)
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'Spirit... Conduct me where you will... let me profit by it'(CF 'picking a mans pocket'/ 'things in life from which I may have derived good from which I have not profited')
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'I hope to live to be another man from what I was'
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'I will live in the past, the present, and the future
Context:
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Redemption ~ Christian Values
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Moral wealth > Material Wealth
Dickens Message:
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Its never too late to change
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Redemption is possible
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Try to become more charitable
Social Injustice
AQA 2017: Explore how Dickens uses the Cratchits family to show the struggles of the poor. Extract (Cratchit family Christmas)
Relevant Quotes:
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'A poor excuse for picking a mans pocket every twenty-fifth of December'(Metaphor (for charity))
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'It's enough for a man to know his own business, and not to interfere with other people's' (CF mankind was my business)
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'Are there no prisons... Union Workhouses... The Treadmill and Poor Law are in full vigour them'(Context)
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'Ragged, Meagre, Scowling, Wolfish' (List of Adjectives)
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'Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did.'(Scrooges employees at old Joe's)
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'Have they no refuge or resource'
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'If they would rather die..they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
Context:
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Poor law of 1843
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Treadmill + Union workhouses
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Hungry 40's
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Malthus - no right to be where they are
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Disraeli - Like two different nations
Dickens Message:
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Do not be like Scrooge at the start - Wealthy + Miserly
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Try to give more to charity
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Poor are dependant on the wealthy
Christmas Spirit
AQA Sample Paper 3: Explore how far Dickens presents Christmas as a joyful time. Extract (Fezziwigs's Party)
Relevant Quotes:
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'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us'(Christian values)
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'He laughed all over himself from his shoes to his organ of benevolence' (Metaphor)
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'I will…
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