The principal purposes of this essay is to analysis the development of the character Scrooge and evaluate the language techniques and practices demonstrated in the novels text. In addition, to this investigation, we will also reconnaissance the similarities between Dickens personal experiences and that of the characters. Furthermore we will take a brief look at how dickens uses his characters to express his beliefs at a subconscious level.
In order for the reader to genuinely understand the relationship between Charles Dickens and the novel in question, it`s necessary to understand the aspects of his life, which inspired the conception and influenced the creation.
Charles John Huffman Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812, in Portsmouth, …show more content…
Christmas Eve arrives, and Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his prior business partner, Jacob Marley. Jacob is constrained in chains, which he explains is his punishment for a life of misery, un-gratefulness and brutality to the poor. Scrooge is then visited by 3 ghosts the same night. The first Ghost shows him his Christmases past, where we begin to understand that Scrooge was not always bitter. The Second Ghost shows him the Christmas present, where Scrooge perceives an insight into his secretary’s life, who has a large family and a nephew, who is even poorer than he. Scrooge also sees the miserable life conditions of the deprived and unfortunate. However both situations are shown as cheerful, in spite of being awful, in contrast to bitter Scrooge. He is then visited by the final Ghost, of Christmas future, who shows him his grave, as well as the community not being concerned about his passing, even auctioning his possessions and additional demoralising occurrences. Scrooge then comprehends the possibility that he may have already departed. However to his overwhelming ecstasy, he wakes up to discover that it is in fact Christmas Day, and sets about abetting the poor, including his secretary, and appreciating life and celebrating …show more content…
At the beginning of the story, he is portrayed as a cold, unsympathetic, heartless man. 'Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out a generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.' Flint is quite a fervent rock, and Dickens’ is verbalizing that even though steel is a robust object, it's not tough enough to breach the outer layers of its surface. Furthermore, oysters live in an inhospitable environment, forever alone, scared of a word other than their own, hiding away in their shell, unwilling to interact unless being involuntary forced to do so; just like Scrooge. He is also established as a 'squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scrapping, clutching, covetous old sinner'. Dickens converses the coldness of Scrooges bearing. Utilising language such as 'He carried his own low temperature with him', “His atmosphere is like constant winter” and most importantly 'No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Dickens is associating Scrooge to repugnant weather, pronouncing Scrooges hostility, voracity, and indignation, by using alternative, metamorphic and perhaps subconscious language
In order for the reader to genuinely understand the relationship between Charles Dickens and the novel in question, it`s necessary to understand the aspects of his life, which inspired the conception and influenced the creation.
Charles John Huffman Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812, in Portsmouth, …show more content…
Christmas Eve arrives, and Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his prior business partner, Jacob Marley. Jacob is constrained in chains, which he explains is his punishment for a life of misery, un-gratefulness and brutality to the poor. Scrooge is then visited by 3 ghosts the same night. The first Ghost shows him his Christmases past, where we begin to understand that Scrooge was not always bitter. The Second Ghost shows him the Christmas present, where Scrooge perceives an insight into his secretary’s life, who has a large family and a nephew, who is even poorer than he. Scrooge also sees the miserable life conditions of the deprived and unfortunate. However both situations are shown as cheerful, in spite of being awful, in contrast to bitter Scrooge. He is then visited by the final Ghost, of Christmas future, who shows him his grave, as well as the community not being concerned about his passing, even auctioning his possessions and additional demoralising occurrences. Scrooge then comprehends the possibility that he may have already departed. However to his overwhelming ecstasy, he wakes up to discover that it is in fact Christmas Day, and sets about abetting the poor, including his secretary, and appreciating life and celebrating …show more content…
At the beginning of the story, he is portrayed as a cold, unsympathetic, heartless man. 'Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out a generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.' Flint is quite a fervent rock, and Dickens’ is verbalizing that even though steel is a robust object, it's not tough enough to breach the outer layers of its surface. Furthermore, oysters live in an inhospitable environment, forever alone, scared of a word other than their own, hiding away in their shell, unwilling to interact unless being involuntary forced to do so; just like Scrooge. He is also established as a 'squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scrapping, clutching, covetous old sinner'. Dickens converses the coldness of Scrooges bearing. Utilising language such as 'He carried his own low temperature with him', “His atmosphere is like constant winter” and most importantly 'No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Dickens is associating Scrooge to repugnant weather, pronouncing Scrooges hostility, voracity, and indignation, by using alternative, metamorphic and perhaps subconscious language