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An example paragraph that I wrote which achieved me 30/30 marks on my A Christmas Carol GCSE English Literature question. This answer includes a wide range of context and quotation analysis, all relating to Scrooge's redemption. Some context used here is a credit to Mr Salles on YouTube.

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  • December 15, 2021
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How does Dickens present the redeemed character of Scrooge?

Dickens utilises Scrooge as an extreme symbol of greed and misery in the
beginning of the novella, in order to emphasise the vitality of his transformation.
As the novella progresses, Scrooge begins to show small signs of redemption, as
he gradually realises the significance of his gluttonousness, which shows
Victorian readers that making small changes and taking responsibility to be more
charitable can ultimately lead you to avoid hell. This shows that even the most
hateful man has the ability to redeem himself, Dickens does this in order to shock
his readers out of inertia.

Scrooge is presented as miserly and gluttonous at the beginning of the novella , as
Dickens describes Scrooge as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping,
clutching, covetous, old sinner”. The adjectives used here are all semantically
linked to the hand, which links to Scrooge’s greed as it is symbolic of his job, in
which he grasps and squeezes money from the poor in order to benefit himself.
Significantly, Dickens uses seven adjectives which could be symbolic of the
seven deadly sins...




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