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.
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.
