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.
Eduqas's essay on this novel marks context as much as response and analysis: weave context into the argument, and treat the printed extract as a starting point, ranging across the beginning, middle and end of the novel.
