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
Dickens' Use of Language and Structure to Build Up a Picture of the Joy of Christmas Present
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