In the play Dickens has split the novel in to two parts which are called prologue and epilogue. He has done this when the three ghosts visit Scrooge because he builds up as the story goes on. For example the past, present and future develop as the novel goes on because it slowly shows that Scrooge is going to change. The writer has also used Irony because in a lot of the situations the three ghosts have not told Scrooge why he is wrong and let him see for himself, especially the ghosts of past and present. Jacob Marley tells Scrooge that he is wrong because he does not want Scrooge to suffer the way he is suffering. Dickens has used Imagery and symbolism in the novel to put a rough picture in the readers of what is happening in the novel for example in staves one "Oh God! To hear the insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!"
A image will come to the readers mind because the Ghost of Christmas Present compares people to insects, and the wealthy Scrooge is accused of looking down at poor people as "insects" because they have less to live on.
There are lots of characters in the novel, but the novel mostly revolves around the character of Ebenezer Scrooge. The point of the story is to show the reasons how and why he changes. As a child Scrooge was an imaginative child and he was really close to his sister, as a young man he worked for Mrs. Fezziwig and was not greedy for money but when he grew up he was scared of becoming poor so it made him passionate about his money which then turned into greed. Scrooge does not find any pleasure in his wealth because he does not spend it on himself or anyone else and for this reason his nephew Fred pities him. The writer has tried to get this point across in the novel An Christmas Carol that what is the point of having money if you are not going to spend it on your self or anyone else. Andd these are the reasons that there is poverty in the world.
The types of languages that the writer has used in the novel are Dialogue, Humor and Repetition,. The novel has verbal humor in it for example
"They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.” The writer has used humor to describe Scrooge’s house. The writer has not made it a simple and boring explanation of a house, he has used good describing words, humor and similes to make the description more effective which will give the reader a good idea of what Scrooge’s house looks like. The writer has also used repetition in the novel for example in the first stave Scrooge has said good afternoon about five times. This sort of Repetition shows that Scrooge is not interested in what his nephew is talking about.
The writer has used similes in the novel to make the story more interesting for example
“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail”.
This will let the reader know that Jacob Marley is definitely dead even before the story has started.
These sorts of languages will have a stronger affect on the reader’s mind which will make them want to read the story right until the end.
Dickens has used language effectively for Scrooge’s character to show that Scrooge is a cold mean and heartless character. Dickens has used effective quotes like “Merry Christmas, What right do you have to be Merry?” Dickens has used this quote because Scrooge is not a merry person so if someone tells him to be Merry he does not like it. This shows that Scrooge likes to be on his own and he does not like it when someone talks to him. Dickens has used a phrase like “Bah Humbug!” Scrooge uses this phrase quite a lot n the beginning of the novel but when he see’s Jacob Marley and realises Jacob Marley’s ghost is real he says half of the word and stops after that he does not use this word in the rest of the novel. I think this is because Scrooge better side is developing as the story goes on.
Tiny Tim was Bob Crachit’s disable son who needed a good treatment to make him better. When Scrooge is visited by The Ghost of Christmas present he is shown how ill Tiny Tim is, and that he will die if he does not receive a treatment. When The Ghost of Christmas yet to come all he sees is Tiny Tim’s crutch because he has died. Dickens shows the reader how Tint Tom is suffering because of the wages that Bob Crachit was getting. “Bob held his withered little hand in his as if he loved the child he wished to keep him by his side, he dreaded that he might be taken away from him”. Dickens has used this quote to show how much Bob Crachit loves Tiny Tim and he is worried that someone might take him away because of the bad circumstances they were living under. This is one of the reasons why Scrooge becomes a better person later on in the novel when Tiny Tim gets better with the help of Scrooge. Tiny Tim becomes a successful business man and he is the only member of the Crachit family that goes to Scrooges funeral.
Ignorance and Want are the sins of children suffering. Dickens has shown this in the novel that poor people and children are suffering because of the Ignorance and Want of the rich people and this is having a negative affect on the children. In ‘A Christmas Carol’ the Ghost of Present shows Scrooge two poor children huddled in his robe. I think that the writer has done this to show the readers that Ignorance and Want is the main reasons why children are suffering.
Bob Crachit was a very poor man because of the wages that Scrooge gave him. He had a disabled son called Tiny Tim who was really poorly and needed to get a proper treatment but Bob Crachit did not have enough money because of the wages that Scrooge gave him. Bob Crachit worked for long hard hours but he still did not get the money he deserved but he never complained. He could not even afford a proper Christmas dinner with his family but he still respected Scrooge even though Scrooge treated him with no respect. Bob Crachit was not a very rich man but he was kind and warm hearted which made him a really rich man even though he did not have proper cloths, house or food where as on the other hand Scrooge was really rich and had a house, food and cloths but he was still very poor because he did was a mean, and cold man.
Charles Dickens has showed his readers in ‘A Christmas Carol’ that if they are rich and have lots of money they should help the poor people who do not have that much money to feed themselves. I think Dickens has shown his readers that if you are rich and selfish and are not helping the poor you should change like Scrooge did in the novel. I think that Dickens has succeeded in getting his point cross to the readers because he has showed how Scrooge was before the ghosts came to visit him and it showed how he changed when the ghosts showed him it is good to help the poor. In ‘A Christmas Carol we learn that it s not a good thing to keep poverty in the world and everyone should work together to remove it.
