Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
The editor of one edition of ‘A Christmas Carol’ wrote “A story so
admirably told, the details of place, of time, of person so
dexterously made real for us” How does Dickens achieve this? How does
he ‘A Christmas Carol’ a story which “No one could help but enjoy”
In this essay I am going to be writing about the different techniques
in which Dickens uses, and by using these bring people, place and time
to life. Dickens cleaver use of techniques throughout this book really
makes us feel as if we are actually there are selves. I think that the
reason why dickens is so good at making this all seem so real to us is
because when he was younger he grew up as a child in London himself,
which I think would explain why this book has so much detail in it. A
lot of what happens in this book most probably happened to Dickens as
a boy as he used to be quite poor himself, an example of this is the
cratchits Christmas dinner which I think was based on what Christmas
used to be like for Dickens. Dickens motive for writing this book was
so that he could make people aware of how awful it was to be poor, so
he therefore wrote this in a story to try and get his point across.
This is why Dickens is so good at using a range of different
techniques which really create an image in are heads of what is really
going on.
I am mainly going to be focusing on the different techniques used in
three certain passages from the book; these are going to be the
description of Scrooge, the description of the shops in London and
Fezziwigs ball. I have chosen these three passages as I think that
they have been written in great detail and show us exactly how Dickens
brings things to life and how well he does it. Even though I am
focusing particularly on these passages Dickens use of techniques is
constantly used throughout this book. His constant uses of adjectives
throughout really create an image in are head of what something looks
like or what is going on. He uses adjectives in a number of different
ways but contently uses these same ways all through the book. Dickens
will use listing such as “Great joints of meat, sucking pig, long
wreaths of sausages, plum puddings.” He will also list three
adjectives and then a noun for example “Cold, bleak, biting weather”
and “Long, bare, melancholy room.” This really helps us to create an
small its as if it only has one coal. Being so cheap and not wanting
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unhappy man whose only wish is to make the rest of the world as sad as
Charles Dickens’s, a British social reformer which has presented to an audience a brilliant novel: A Christmas Carol. The play is set in the mid 1900’s where the industrial revolution was introduced which resulted in inventions such as machines; people consequently were fleeing the countryside for work in city for good paying jobs, for good achieving business people this gave their business a massive amount of money but a small minority of people were underprivileged because money was distributed unfairly. The basis of the story is to show the audience that money alone cannot bring happiness, but it is how you use it.
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Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The novel, ‘A Christmas Carol’, is more than just a mere story instead it tries to expose the negative side of Victorian society and the reason behind this horror, the greed of the wealthy, through the development of the character Scrooge. All this while attempting to prompt readers with Scrooge’s similar wealth to make a change. As mentioned earlier, the development of Scrooge’s character is vital to this and I will explain how his character develops as the story proceeds and how it is used to accomplish the aim as mentioned above.
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Charles Dickens is well known for his distinctive writing style. Few authors before or since are as adept at bringing a character to life for the reader as he was. His novels are populated with characters who seem real to his readers, perhaps even reminding them of someone they know. What readers may not know, however, is that Dickens often based some of his most famous characters, those both beloved or reviled, on people in his own life. It is possible to see the important people, places, and events of Dickens' life thinly disguised in his fiction. Stylistically, evidence of this can be seen in Great Expectations. For instance, semblances of his mother, father, past loves, and even Dickens himself are visible in the novel. However, Dickens' past influenced not only character and plot devices in Great Expectations, but also the very syntax he used to create his fiction. Parallels can be seen between his musings on his personal life and his portrayal of people and places in Great Expectations.
driving power behind his pen in book after book" (Neill 168). Much of Dickens' literary career is devoted to create awareness of the reality that is being overlooked by many. He attempts to enlighten everyone with how the world should be, a place in perfect harmony. Truly, Dickens did not write his novel in a dream world, but rather showed the inevitable truth if society does not change.