A christmas carol exam - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Grade 9 GCSE English Lit notes for A Christmas Carol - 27 pages of very high quality notes - in-depth analysis of quotations - context, themes and sophisticated vocabulary to boost your grade - 3 detailed essay plans - a full marks essay done under examination conditions I got a Grade 9 with 100% on Paper 1- Shakespeare/19th Century Novel- on the AQA exam board. |Disclaimer| This document and its content are copyright of StudyingAcademia. All rights reserved. This document is subj...

GCSE AQA grade 9 detailed theme notes for a Christmas carol. Includes: family, isolation, capitalism, materialism + wealth, morality, poverty + social injustice, regret, religion + Christmas, redemption + change, the supernatural. These notes will cover any theme that could possibly crop up in your exam.

This essay focuses on the theme of sickness and greed in A Christmas Carol, including context and detailed analysis of quotes. This essay was marked as grade 9 and written for the Eduqas exam board, but can be adapted for any! Introduction: In his novella, A Christmas Carol, Dickens presents the correlation between sickness and greed; greed causing sickness in society – used to exhibit the infant mortality and the prevalence of poverty and disease in the Victorian Era due to the avarice of t...

This essay focuses on Tension in A Christmas Carol and suspense created at different points in the novella. This essay was written for the Eduqas exam board but can be adapted for any! Introduction: In the novella A Christmas Carol, Dickens uses tension throughout Scrooge’s emotional journey, as his metal strength is tested by the four ghosts that visit him, and the events of his life they show him. He also uses the plight of those less fortunate, Cratchits to create tension, presenting the ...

This essay focuses on the theme of Charity in A Christmas Carol, including an introduction, a variety of quotes from throughout the text, and their analysis. It focuses on charity as a general theme, and how it is expressed through different characters and their transformations as the novella progresses. This essay is grade 9 and was written for the Eduqas exam baord but can be suited to any e.g AQA, Edexcel etc.

This Essay focuses on the theme of poverty in A Christmas Carol, with context and detailed analysis of quotes. This essay was written for the Eduqas exam board but can be adapted for any! Introduction: Dickens himself was deeply concerned by the plight of the poor and was involved with number of charities and this is reflected in his exploration of the theme of poverty. He is very clear about the evils of poverty and in particular the lack of education that helped to perpetuate it. Dickens re...

This essay focuses on the contrasting characters of Bob and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, including context and detailed analysis of quotes from throughout the novella. This essay was marked as a Grade 9 and written for the Eduqas exam board but can be adapted for any! Introduction: In the novella A Christmas Carol, Dickens presents the stark contrast between Bob and Scrooge, using Bob Cratchit as a paradigm of the working class, Scrooge as the more callous and affluent of society; able to trea...

What context should we include in our ACC exam? - correct answer - Dickens' himself and his attitudes - Christmas - Social Class - Child Poverty - Women - Malthus - Workhouses and Poverty - Morality - Christianity Summary of the Context behind why Charles Dickens' wrote this novel - correct answer - Dickens' early life gave him first-hand experiences of poverty - He was a family man who loved celebrations and entertainment - He was very concerned about poverty,...

This essay focuses on the theme of Love in A Christmas Carol, including context and detailed analysis of quotes. This was marked as a Grade 9 and written for the Eduqas exam board. Introduction: In his novella, A Christmas Carol Dickens presents love through many of his character, all used to juxtapose Scrooge and his misanthropic, cruel character, wishing to keep himself isolated from family and joyful company. In the Era Dickens wrote, Victorians kept to themselves, the more affluent especia...

This essay focuses on the Importance of Children, including context, and detailed analysis of quotes relating to children. This essay was marked as a Grade 9 and written for Eduqas exam board but can be adapted to any! Introduction: In the novella A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens, one of the explored themes is the Importance of Children. Dickens was deeply concerned by the plight of the poor and in particular the rates of infant mortality which were extremely high during the Victo...