The Ghost of Christmas Present — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
The Ghost of Christmas Present
Characters
What you need to know
How Dickens presents The Ghost of Christmas Present, and how the character develops across the text: generosity, plenty, and the warning of Ignorance and Want.
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: 'a jolly Giant', 'Come in! and know me better, man!', 'its capacious breast was bare', 'My life upon this globe, is very brief', 'If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die', 'Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?', 'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.', 'most of all beware this boy'.
Plenty and generosity, and the Ghost as Dickens's mouthpiece.
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.
