A christmas carol Flashcards
When is ‘A Christmas Carol’ published
1843
where did Dickens work in 1824
a factory
A Christmas Carol is fictional but what was Dickens’ message
It was a message about generosity and giving to a 19th century Victorian audience.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
An economist that said that poor people should die and decrease the surplus population because there wasn’t enough food
the new poor law of 1835 said…
to reduce the financial help to poor people and introduced work houses, prisons and the treadmill
first sentence of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Jacob Marley was dead, to begin with
Dickens links Scrooge with the weather- what quotes show this?
Scrooge is constantly described as ‘cold’ and ‘frosty’
How many ghosts come to see Scrooge
4-
Jacob Marley
ghost of Christmas past
ghost of Christmas present
ghost of Christmas yet to come
Why is Scrooge’s house dark?
Because ‘darkness is cheap’
what do Belle’s family represent?
the life Scrooge could have had
the reader gets shown Scrooge in the ‘prime of life’ but…
he shows ‘signs of care and avarice’
Scrooge speaks like ‘his former not his latter self’ which shows….
Scrooge has changed with age and it’s his past that has caused him to be like this.
