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

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (BY CHARLES DICKENS)By Close Analysis of Staves One and Five Show How hellion Portraysthe fault of Scrooge and To What EffectIn December 1843, Charles Dickens wrote and published A ChristmasCarol. He published this book when he needed money he needed moneybadly because he was in debt. He resolute to link it to things that arehappening that Christmas was not taken seriously, it was fading prohibitedand ghost traditional Christmas tales. Dickens utilize the genre of ghoststories, just 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 positive education. You were expected to take shape 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 stimulatehouse. There were no holidays, you had to work on B oxingDay, and if you ended up in debt, you would be typeset 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 almost ghosts, and ghost stories werealways told during Christmas. Books were always in chapters, butDickens wrote his in rungs musical notes. Dickens starts to compare,first, looking at the full title, A Christmas Carol in prose, tohave a carol in prose essence 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(repeat) we impart also be looking at jokes and humours.Stave1 Marleys GhostMarley was utter 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, demonstra te that there is an excitement there, even inthe first paragraph. Dickens uses repetition in the first paragraph ofstave 1 clergyman and clerk, mortician 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 slow bug out the pace and change the atmosphere, this was meant to befunny (in1843), he used this to divert peoples attention from the