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    around Britain. While Dickens was a young man‚ he suffered from poverty along with his mother and father. His father was imprisoned for dept and Charles wanted to become a social reformer. Dickens used these problems as themes for his book ‘A Christmas Carol’. These themes involve poverty‚ pollution and a changing of ways. Dickens used Scrooge‚ the main character in the book at first to show how current society was at the time and then at the end‚ after the visits from the three ghosts‚ how the society

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    Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol: A True Gentleman According to Dictionary.com‚ a gentleman is a civilized‚ educated‚ sensitive‚ or well-mannered man. However‚ by Victorian definition‚ a gentleman was‚ perhaps most importantly‚ a rich man. “Charles Dickens…was an author of relatively humble origins who desired passionately to be recognized as a gentleman‚ and insisted‚ in consequence‚ upon the essential dignity of his occupation” (Victorian Web). In Great Expectations he portrays Pip‚ a

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    Charles Dickens book A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite books that I always read around Christmas. The main character of this book is Ebenezer Scrooge. He is a very mean old man who doesn’t like Christmas. On Christmas Eve‚ Mr. Scrooge is visited by a ghost named Jacob Marley who happens to be his old partner. Because Jacob Marley was also very mean when he died his spirit was left to wonder the earth weighted down by heavy chains. Marley wants to save Scrooge from ending up like him so Marley

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    Prose coursework: How does Dickens develop the character of scrooge throughout the novel? In the story A Christmas Carol ‚ my reaction changed towards Scrooge through each stave. In the first opening stave‚ you felt as if Scrooge was an inconsiderate‚ horrible man. Throughout the rest of the staves you start to feel bad for Scrooge and almost forgive him. Also his past reflects his personality in the future. This influences my reaction towards Scrooge as Dickens uses contradicting and contrasting

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    What are the moral lessons Dickens wished to convey in A Christmas Carol and how effectively does he convey them? Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a classic Christmas story which contains stern moral lessons‚ written in 1843. These lessons are designed to make the readers of that time‚ the Victorians‚ conscience of the injustices that were present in the rapidly expanding cities of Britain‚ due to the Industrial Revolution. The story includes three morals‚ demonstrated by the three Ghosts

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    How does dickens use language to create the character of Nancy and its effect on the reader’s interpretations of her? Charles Dickens uses language to create the character of Nancy‚ as he displays her to be able to comprehend and is capable of both good and evil‚ being a criminal on the streets and a caring mother towards Oliver. At the beginning of the novel when Nancy was first described Dickens refers to her in a negative light. His reference to her “free and agreeable . . . manners” indicates

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    How the Grinch Stole Christmas‚ written by Dr. Seuss and the cheerless‚ misanthrope‚ miser‚ Scrooge‚ from The Christmas Carol‚ written by Charles Dickens. Both bad‚ beastly‚ brutal‚ and barbarous acting. Each character starts of bad‚ then turns good in the end‚ but the big question is which character is meaner? Out of both the Grinch and Scrooge’s reactions to Christmas; the Grinch is the meanest meanie of them all. The Grinch is meaner because he tries to stop Christmas from coming‚ lied to a

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    author who wrote memorable stories. Dickens had a life full of travel and had a few different homes. He made many contributions to literature with his classic books. One book was the beloved story‚ A Christmas Carol‚ where Dickens used character development to change a character’s view on Christmas. Charles Dickens was‚ and still is‚ one of the best authors of all time. Charles Dickens had a pretty eventful life. He lived in a few different places during his time on earth. Dickens was born in Portsmouth

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    Explore the ways that Scrooge’s emotions change in “A Christmas Carol” The story will not leave us‚ but will “haunt” us “pleasantly” as Dickens hoped. We are experiencing this by exploring the ways that emotions of main character‚ Ebenezer Scrooge‚ change during reading “A Christmas Carol”. Charles Dickens uses a lot of adjectives and many similes in order to present a clear image of what Scrooge looks like‚ as well as his personality‚ and this is before we have ever met him: “Hard and sharp as

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    people in many different ways.He influenced many people by decorating for Christmas and inspired other authors to create different versions of his stories for example A Christmas Carol. This gives people a different perspective on A Christmas Carol. In the book A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens wrote about decorating for Christmas. This influenced people to start decorating their homes for Christmas and to get in the Christmas spirit. According to the website made by Charles Dickens daughter Mamie

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