The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
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.
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.
