redemption

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the idea of redemption in A Christmas Carol? Write about:

• how Dickens presents the idea of redemption in this extract

• how Dickens presents the idea of redemption in the novel as a whole. [30 marks]

1) dickens presents the idea of redemption as soemthing nessecary and not optional

- use of marleys ghost, shows what happens if you do not repent

-``Mankind was my business."

- business shows how victorain capitalists were obsesses with money, and forgot to look around

- collective pronoun mankind shows how interlinked everyone is and how you have to be nice to everyone, not just the people you deem worthy

metaphor, shows what should be valued during life

past tense shows how it is too late  for him, he has to suffer, however scrooge can redeem himslef if he doesnt want the fate

2) idea of redemption refected in the weather of the setting - pathetic fallacy

cold, bleak, biting weather

- list of adjectives - makes it seem endless, no end in sight, hopeless

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