Ep.4 of 14 GCSE A Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol - Stave 1 - Marley's Ghost (AQA)

A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) - award winning tutorials from AudiopiA Christmas Carol is amongst the most famous of Dickens’ works, and Ebenezer Scrooge, the chief character, is perhaps the best-known and most distinctive of all his creations. Our AQA GCSE English Literature series for A Christmas Carol will guide you through everything you need to know about this classic of Victorian literature and help you understand how best to approach it in your exams.Tutorial SummaryIn this tutorial we provide a summary of Stave 1. Examine what is interesting about the way this section is written, including ariations of the word ‘dead’ & associated words ‘funeral’ and ‘burial’ in opening paragraphs and connections with Hamlet. We analyse the first descriptions of Scrooge and we look at the setting: darkness, fog and cold pervade. We discuss Scrooge as a businessman; Introduction of ideas to do with social equality; the Poor Law and the treadmill.The first 5 episodes in this series, and every series in this podcast show, are free to listen to! Love what you hear and want us with you for the journey? You can subscribe to access every episode in any series on Acast+ for the price of a couple of cups of coffee a month, and become a supporter! Hit the link to Access it All.https://plus.acast.com/s/audiopi-gcse-english-literature-language-tutorials Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.