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

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (BY CHARLES DICKENS)By Close Analysis of Staves integrity and Five Show How daemon Portraysthe Transformation of Scrooge and To What EffectIn December 1843, Charles devil wrote and published A ChristmasCarol. He published this prevail when he needed money he needed money naughtily because he was in debt. He decided to link it to things that are occurrent that Christmas was not taken seriously, it was fading outand ghost traditional Christmas tales. Dickens used the genre of ghoststories, but Dickens did something unusual, he changed the position thatghost stories are meant to be frightening, in this book, the ghoststories were scary.In 1843 (ancient times), on that point were no security, pensions, nationalhealth nor compulsory education. You were expected to work sestet 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 in prison or workhouse. There were no holidays, you ha d to work on BoxingDay, and if you cease 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 about ghosts, and ghost stories were forever told during Christmas. Books were always in chapters, butDickens wrote his in staves musical notes. Dickens starts to compare,first, tone at the full title, A Christmas Carol in prose, to go for a carol in prose means a contradiction in terms (to declare against). Thebook written in staves, which is a music stave, is alreadycontradicting the title. In the preface, he uses another contradiction(repetition) we will excessively be looking at jokes and humours.Stave1 Marleys GhostMarley was dead to begin with this is a contradiction we alreadybegin to make assumptions about the story. Stave1, beginning with a prejudicial statement Marley was dead.......... (A quick reference tostave 5), and stave 5 a positive statement Yes with anexclamation mark, showing that there is an excitement there, redden inthe first split up. 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 judge out that Dickens uses these to slowdown the pace and change the atm, this was meant to befunny (in1843), he used this to divert peoples attention from the