The Ghost of Christmas Past — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Characters
What you need to know
How Dickens presents The Ghost of Christmas Past, and how the character develops across the text: memory and the light it sheds on Scrooge.
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: 'like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man', 'a bright clear jet of light', 'Your lip is trembling', 'Your reclamation, then', 'A solitary child, neglected by his friends', 'Another idol has displaced me'.
Light and memory, and why Scrooge tries to put the light out.
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.
