Key quotations — A Christmas Carol — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from A Christmas Carol, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Key quotations: 'squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner', 'solitary as an oyster', 'decrease the surplus population', 'I wear the chain I forged in life', 'Mankind was my business', 'Another idol has displaced me', 'God bless us every one!', 'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.', 'I am not the man I was', 'knew how to keep Christmas well'.
Edexcel's novel question has two parts, and neither marks context: part (a) on the printed extract marks language, form and structure (AO2); part (b) on the novel elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1), not language analysis. Use context only where it explains a reading, and say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
