christmas carol: key themes- the supernatural (info & quotes.) Flashcards
as a ghost story what does this novella do?
subverts expectations of a christmas novella with a christian message.
by basing the novella around the visitation of ghosts what does dickens enable the reader to do?
an objective view of scrooge’s past without the need for a first-person narrative. an unreliable narrator it thus avoided.
what does the supernatural element give and give an example?
credence to the events of that night; we can’t dismiss the visitations as a dream- it would eb impossible for scrooge to envisage the reality of the cratchits household for example.
how are the visions scrooge sees made ‘real?’
use of ghosts as chaperones.
key quote: 1- s1.
ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains.
key quote: 2- s1.
the spectre’s voice disturbed the very marrow in his (scrooge) bones.
key quote: 3- s1.
‘why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?’ (scrooge.)
key quote: 4- s1.
‘you (scrooge) do not believe in me.’ (Marley’s ghost.)
key quote: 5- s1.
‘what evidence would you (scrooge) have of my reality beyond that of your sense?’ (Marley’s ghost.)
key quote: 6- s1.
‘without their visits (the three spirits), you can’t hope to shun the path i tread. expect the first tomorrow.’ (marley’s ghost.)
key quote: 7- s1.
‘expect the second on the next night at the same hour. the third upon the next night when the last stroke of twelve has ceased. (marley’s ghost.)
key quote: 8- s1.
‘remember what has passed between us.’ (marley’s ghost.)
key quote: 9- s1.
the air filled with phantoms, some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together.
key quote: 10- s1.
one old ghost….cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, who saw it below, upon a door-step.
key quote: 11- s1.
the misery with all of them, was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost power for ever.
