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- Published in December 1843, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was an instant bestseller, followed by countless print, stage and screen productions. Victorians called it “a new gospel,” and reading or watching it became a sacred ritual for many, without which the Christmas season cannot materialize.
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Some readers received it as a “new gospel,” supplement or substitute for the scripture that was, perhaps, losing its mass appeal. Others, like Ruskin, bemoaned the Carol’s lack of real sacred truth.
- Stave I
- Stave II
- Stave III
- Stave Vi
- Stave V
- Teaching Acc with A Focus on The Theme of Religion
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When we read Stave 1 we are told of Marley’s funeral which is a Christian one. Dickens has no need to state this because his contemporary readers would know this, from the reference to the “register of his burial” which is signed by the “the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker and the chief mourner”. When Scrooge is described he is presented as co...
In Stave II, we move from the darkness and fog of London outside Scrooge’s home to the light of the Ghost of Christmas Past (GoCP). Ackroyd (1994: 203-231) comments that Dickens is “exaggerating the darkness beyond the small circle of light”. We see that this figurative description becomes real in the circle of light brought into the novella by the...
Dickens moves the story on with the arrival of the third visitor the Ghost of Christmas Present (GoCPr). Dickens once again blends the pagan and the Christian in this character. The green colour and the holly, yet the holly wreath could echo the image of the crown of thorns worn by Jesus at his crucifixion. The Sabbath is emphasised with Scrooge in...
This Stave shows us a world which is empty and soulless for Scrooge; his lack of benevolence and beneficence has ensured he is still “solitary as an oyster”. He has to accept Christ into his world and atone for his sins otherwise he will not defeat the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, presented as the Grim Reaper. Dickens deliberately presents a sec...
We now see a reversal, Scrooge has accepted how he must change and his world is filled with light. Whilst we do not see an overt conversion to Christianity, we are shown Scrooge behaving in a Christian way: he shows benevolence and is welcomed into both families and he becomes beneficent and gives generously and secretly to charity and to the Cratc...
Why focus on religion? This came from considering Scrooge’s change of heart over the course of the novella and considering how I would teach this. The AQA specification is centred on developing “a critical understanding of the ways in which literary texts are a reflection of, and exploration of, the human condition” (AQA, 2018). The mark scheme for...
Ackroyd, P. (1994). Dickens [abridged edition]. London: Vintage Books.AQA. (2018). GCSE English Literature 8702/1- Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th–Century Novel.CLiC web app clic.bham.ac.uk. [Mahlberg, M., Stockwell, P., de Joode, J., Smith, C., & O’Donnell, M. B. (2016). CLiC Dickens: Novel uses of concordances for the integration of corpus stylistics and...Davis, P. B. (1990). The Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge. Yale: Yale University Press.Faber, M. (2005, December 24). Spectral pleasures. The Guardian.Mahlberg, M., Wiegand, V., Hobday, S., & Child, F. (2019). Digital methods for the English classroom. Impact: Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching, 7.Tomalin, C. (2012). Dickens: A Life. London: Penguin Books.Taft, J. (2015). Disenchanted religion and secular enchantment in A Christmas Carol. Victorian Literature and Culture, 43(4), 659–673.First edition cover of A Christmas Carol (1843). Wikimedia Commons.Stave I: Leech, J. (1843). Marley’s Ghost. Wikimedia Commons.Stave II: Leech, J. (1843). Scrooge Extinguishes the First of The Three Spirits. Scanned by Philip V. Allingham for The Victorian Web.Stave III: Leech, J. (1843). Scrooge’s third visitor. Wikimedia Commons.2023年12月6日 · A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a Christmas classic—but is it secular or biblical? From the ghost to the names, we may just find the answer.
2020年12月7日 · The Christian gospel is at the heart of A Christmas Carol, but the story is not a Christian allegory. The three Christmas spirits are not stand-ins for the Holy Trinity, nor does Scrooge receive salvation in a theological sense. Yet, his story paints a vivid picture of
‘The Victorian Carol connected the city to the traditions of the country. It also revealed a new urban world infused with spirit (s), and so it became a kind of scripture. As Darwinism and doubt undermined the authority of the Bible, secular texts assumed Biblical
2021年12月1日 · Jesus is inextricable from A Christmas Carol, and his arrival at that first Christmas has made redemption accessible to even the most despised of misers. As the story of Scrooge causes us to ponder if people really can change, we should be led to think of the miraculous advent of Christ.
