The Ghost of Christmas Present — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
The Ghost of Christmas Present
Characters
What you need to know
How Dickens presents The Ghost of Christmas Present, and how the character develops across the text: generosity, plenty, and the warning of Ignorance and Want.
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: 'a jolly Giant', 'Come in! and know me better, man!', 'its capacious breast was bare', 'My life upon this globe, is very brief', 'If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die', 'Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?', 'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.', 'most of all beware this boy'.
Plenty and generosity, and the Ghost as Dickens's mouthpiece.
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.
