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GCSE English Literature · key term
A story that communicates a lesson about right and wrong through its characters and events.
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Paper 1
A story that teaches a moral lesson through its characters and events.
Revise: Writer's methodsThe ghosts do more than frighten. Their visits make the novella a moral fable about the possibility of redemption through changed behaviour. Marley’s suffering warns against neglecting others, while Scrooge’s eventual generosity offers a hopeful alternative.
Paper 2
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A story that teaches a lesson about how people should behave.
The novella therefore also works as a moral fable, teaching that people should care for others and use the opportunity to change while they are alive.
Paper 1
A story designed to convey a lesson about right and wrong behaviour.
Revise: Writer's methodsIt also works as a moral fable, a story that teaches a lesson about conduct. Scrooge’s extreme selfishness and striking reform make its lesson clear: people can change, but good intentions must become practical kindness. At the end, the narrator’s assurance that Scrooge was “better than his word” in Stave Five confirms that his promises lead to lasting action.
Component 2
Revise: Writer's methodsForm means the kind of work Dickens creates: a prose novella, a ghost story and a moral fable. Structure means its organisation, including the order of the visions and the return to earlier situations at the ending. Language includes the words, images, sentences and speech patterns through which those ideas take shape.
