The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
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.
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.
