Everything you need to revise and analyse the Ghost of Christmas Present A Christmas Carol
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This video goes through everything you need to revise for the Ghost of Christmas Present in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. From the quotations to revise using flashcards, what to say about them, and working out Dickens’ message.
Quotations covered in this video:
• “its capacious breast was bare”
• “an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it”
• “bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn”
• “Know me better”
• “Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast”
• “I see a vacant seat”
• “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.”
• “on his brow I see that written which is Doom”
I mentioned in the video that you could take this further. Here are a few ideas I would have covered if I had more time:
• Scenes of happiness at Christmas - Dickens covers people in all sorts of difficult geographies still enjoying Christmas
• Scenes of abundance in shops
• Fred’s happy gathering, and the gentle mocking of Scrooge at the party.
• “a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney” when Scrooge first appears
• “God bless us everyone” - Tiny Tim is so warm and generous
• “odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man” Mrs C doesn’t hide her feelings
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Scrooge at the start of the novella is explored here, including “solitary as an oyster” and “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”: ua-cam.com/video/kN7DkWMsAg4/v-deo.html
00:32 Quotation 1
01:29 Quotation 2 / symbolism
02:50 Quotation 3 / Cornucopia - Horn of Plenty
03:49 Quotation 4 / Welcoming and warm
05:20 Cratchits: emotional heart
06:55 Pathos
08:55 Ignorance and Want
11:06 Doom
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