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GCSE English Literature · key term
A story that teaches a moral or spiritual lesson through its characters and events.
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Paper 1
Revise: RedemptionHowever, the novella can be read as a parable, a story designed to teach a moral or spiritual lesson rather than reproduce ordinary experience exactly. The supernatural compresses years of memories and possible consequences into an intense experience. Within that compressed time, Dickens still shows stages of resistance, regret, sympathy and commitment.
Paper 2
A story that communicates a moral or spiritual lesson through its characters and events.
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The novella can be read as a parable: a story whose events teach a moral or spiritual lesson. Its five staves organise a movement from wrongdoing through instruction and repentance to a changed life. A stave is a verse of a song; although the novella is written in prose, its musical title and chapter names suggest a carol whose parts contribute to one uplifting whole.
Component 2
Revise: RedemptionThe novella can be read as a parable: a story teaching a moral or spiritual lesson. Its Christian pattern moves from sin through repentance towards redemption. Scrooge kneels in appeal, praises Heaven and goes to church after his transformation.
