The Ghost of Christmas Past — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
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.
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.
