How Dickens presents Scrooge, and how the character develops across the text: from miser to a man who 'knew how to keep Christmas well'.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner', 'Hard and sharp as flint', 'solitary as an oyster', 'decrease the surplus population', 'Another idol has displaced me', 'I fear you more than any spectre I have seen', 'I am not the man I was', 'as merry as a school-boy', 'knew how to keep Christmas well'.
Structure: how each stave moves Scrooge on, and the echoes of his Stave One words.
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.
