A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens in 1843. Life for the lower class during this time was extremely hard because of enormous amounts of illnesses, young children worked and no education. A Christmas Carol was set in mid 19th century, during this time people had a really bad time; most of the people was unemployed and the people who were employed were paid deficiently, others were seasonal or casual, which meant they were when work was available so most of the families lived in poverty which means that they didn’t have access to nice food and clothes and children were also used for the family income so the children had to work in work houses. In contrast the rich people had access to doctors, plenty of food and didn’t have to work, had nice clothes to wear and had a nice life. Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to highlight the plisht of the poor.A Christmas Carol is divided into five staves. The first stave is a prologue where Dickens introduces the reader to scrooge and his characteristics. In the second stave Dickens writes about the ghost of the past who takes scrooge to the past and shows him what happened in his important parts of his life. In the third stave Dickens writes about the ghost of the present where the ghost of present shows scrooge what was happening at the present. In the fourth stave scrooge is met by the ghost of the future and he is shown what is going to happen in the future to him and people around him. The final stave is an epilogue, where dickens ends the novel by showing the reader how Scrooge changes his characteristics and revolutionizes. Ebenezer Scrooge is described as miser and man of ‘business’ and he was also described as tight fisted hand and he was described as a squeezing,…
…e 1 like “no fog, no mist” and “cold, piping for the blood dance”. In the final stave Dickens gives a description of the changed scrooge by saying that he searches for conversations for himself, preferably chasing people away, he then asks a boy passing by “what’s today?” and the boy answers contentedly Christmas day. Scrooge for the first time is so munificent so he sends the boy to buy the prize turkey to be given to Bob Cratchit.Finally Charles Dickens has presented Ebenezer Scrooge in a really good way by using a lot of language devices like similes, weather symbolism, alliteration, colloquialisms and others. The novel is narrated by first person who makes the novel more interesting and more believable. Dickens gives a good descriptive description of Scrooge which gives a clear image of how Scrooge was at the beginning of the novel and at the end of the novel.
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