A CHRISTMAS CAROL (BY CHARLES DICKENS) :: English Literature

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (BY CHARLES DICKENS)By Close Analysis of Staves One and Five appearing How Dickens Portraysthe Transformation of Scrooge and To What EffectIn December 1843, Charles Dickens wrote and published A ChristmasCarol. He published this book when he needed silver he needed moneybadly because he was in debt. He decided to link it to things that arehappening that Christmas was not taken seriously, it was fading tabooand tinge traditional Christmas tales. Dickens used the genre of ghoststories, but Dickens did something unusual, he changed the fact thatghost stories are meant to be frightening, in this book, the ghoststories were scary.In 1843 (ancient times), there were no security, pensions, nationalhealth nor compulsory education. You were expected to work six days aweek and on Sunday, you go to church (only if you had a job). Thosewho had no job couldnt go to church, because they were probably inprison or workhouse. There were no holidays, you had to work on BoxingDay, and if you stop up in debt, you would be put in debt prison.Dickens grew up in this prison with his dad, he started work at theage of 12 (it was a terrible work).Looking at the Book, it was ab prohibited ghosts, and ghost stories werealways told during Christmas. Books were always in chapters, butDickens wrote his in slowdowns musical notes. Dickens starts to compare, primary, looking at the full title, A Christmas Carol in prose, tohave a carol in prose means a contradiction (to speak against). Thebook written in staves, which is a music stave, is alreadycontradicting the title. In the preface, he uses another contradiction(repetition) we will also be looking at jokes and humours.Stave1 Marleys GhostMarley was unawares to begin with this is a contradiction we alreadybegin to make assumptions about the story. Stave1, beginning with anegative statement Marley was dead.......... (A quick reference tostave 5), and stave 5 a positive statement Yes with anexclamation mark, showing th at there is an excitement there, even inthe first paragraph. Dickens uses repetition in the first paragraph ofstave 1 clergyman and clerk, undertaker and chief mourner, andScrooge was also emphasised twice. He uses a simile Old Marley wasdead as a door nail, he was being humorous in the book he explainswhy he used it, but we figured out that Dickens uses these to slowdown the pace and change the atmosphere, this was meant to befunny (in1843), he used this to divert peoples attention from the