How Dickens presents Marley's Ghost, and how the character develops across the text: his warning and the chains he forged in life.
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: 'Marley was dead: to begin with', 'dead as a door-nail', 'I wear the chain I forged in life', 'I made it link by link, and yard by yard', 'cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel', 'Mankind was my business', 'no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused', 'by Three Spirits'.
The chain as a symbol, and the ghost story as Dickens's form.
OCR's question on this novel is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the novel elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the novel, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts when it is relevant to the question, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
