Essays on Book Page 195

Version one is based in nineteenth century London. Society is shown to be split into two very different classes, the poor workers and beggars and the rich businessmen. There are many people dressed in ragged clothing that look thin and dirty. However, these people also tend to look cheerful and happy when compared to Scrooge….

In the preface to ‘A Christmas Carol’, Dickens states that he had “endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an idea”. To what extent do you think he is successful in creating an enjoyable Christmas story with a serious moral message about the treatment of others? ‘A Christmas Carol’ is the…

“A Christmas Carol” was set in 1843. The story was written by Charles Dickens and shows what poverty was really like. It shows the gap between the working and upper class and how wide the gap really was between them. For example, diets were very different between the two classes. Working class would be eating…

To understand Shakespeare’s plays, you need to understand life in those days. This includes religion, the chain of being, myths & magic, little and large and the way things where run. The main religion being practiced was protestant; people that where catholic where known to be ‘potential traitors to their country.’ This was all well…

The great play writer, Arthur Miller formed a miserable story “The Crucible” during the dark Mc Carthy Ela. The story was based on Salem Witch Trials and the event behind the history. The author created a parallel story to spend the reader the message of how he thinks about the Anti-Communism activity of the 1950’s….

At Christmas Dickens thinks we should keep Christmas well. By keeping Christmas well he means that Christmas is a time when people forgive things to each other, when all the family gets together for celebration, even at Christmas, for only this day they forget about money problems and have a great day enjoying themselves. Christmas…

In this extract from the opening chapter of the novel, we learn several things. We get a strong impression of the sitting of London in the nineteenth century. We get an idea of the way. Some people worked and the conditions they had to work in. the character of scrooge is made clear with some…

Charles Dickens wrote one of his best sellers ‘A Christmas Carol’ in 1843. Between 1838 and 1842 there were high levels of unemployment because the economy was in recession – this was the era he wrote his later novel in. Later on this era was referred to as ‘the hungry forties’ by some historians. Nine years…

Charles dickens is a famous writer who wrote a Novel called A Christmas Carol; it has a Christmas message for those people who do not appreciate Christmas. The main characters are Scrooge and the Bob Crotchets and his family. Scrooge is a miser and old guy who all always think about profit and subjects to…

Charles Dickens describes ‘A Christmas carol’ as ‘a ghost story for Christmas. ‘ In what ways can the novel be considered a ghost story? And why is it an appropriate tale for Christmas? Nearly all conventions of the ‘ghost story’ genre are the same. The typical opening for a ghost story would be for there…