The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Characters
What you need to know
How Dickens presents The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and how the character develops across the text: silence, fear and death.
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: 'The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached', 'shrouded in a deep black garment', 'I fear you more than any spectre I have seen', 'Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?', 'I am not the man I was'.
Silence, death and fear, and the Ghost's resemblance to the figure of Death.
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.
