A Christmas Carol Timeline:
Stave 1 :
-Opens with Scrooge on Christmas Eve being visited By his nephew Fred which invites him to dinner
but he refuses even to donate to charity
-Scrooge as he goes home sees ghost of marley in door
-Marley informs Scrooge of the misery that awaits and that he will be visited
Stave 2 :
- Ghost of past visits him and takes him to childhood moments(happy+sad)(lonely
boy,Fan,employer jolly party,disengagement with belle)
- Then shown an older Belle happy with a family and then Scrooge refuses to watch
Stave 3 :
- Ghost of present appears in his house with food he then takes him to his clerk house Bob to
see his family happy and warns that tiny Tim will die
- They travel around the world to see happy families like in Fred house where they make fun
of Scrooge unhappy attitudes
- It ends on a somber note seeing children hidden in the ghost cloak (ignorance and want
)(they are dangerous)
Stave 4:
- Ghost of yet to come takes him to future where he is hinted of a dead man by his stuff being
sold and easily talked about
- Then taken to cart hits mourning for tiny tim
- Reveals Scrooge graveyard and there Scrooge promises to change and celebrate
Stave 5 :
- He wakes up in bedroom on Christmas and acts generous to charity and children and
bob(gives turkey) and goes to Fred house for Christmas
- Ends telling us that tiny Tim doesn't die but that Scrooge becomes like his second father and
that he celebrates Christmas for the rest of his life
Characters essay plans:
SCROOGE-utilised to be direct antithesis of all the values (capitalism,greed and socialism)dickens is
against.constructed as an allegorical character demonstrating although his negative attitudes
(ignorant to misfortune of poor) (archetypal villain) a metamorphosis still is possible and so can the
Victorian readers(promote).Also used to criticise the alienating effects of capitalist Victorians
resulting in his misanthropic persona overcame through family
“Solitary as an oyster”(stave 1) Squeezing wrenching grasping scraping
Ebenezer scrooge cluchting(stave 1)
Very small fire(stave 1) Decrease the surplus population(stave 1)
Ogre(stave 3) Humbug(stave 1)
I am as light as a feather…as a boy(stave 5) A solitary child neglected…left there still(stave
infinitely 2)
Stave 1 :
-Opens with Scrooge on Christmas Eve being visited By his nephew Fred which invites him to dinner
but he refuses even to donate to charity
-Scrooge as he goes home sees ghost of marley in door
-Marley informs Scrooge of the misery that awaits and that he will be visited
Stave 2 :
- Ghost of past visits him and takes him to childhood moments(happy+sad)(lonely
boy,Fan,employer jolly party,disengagement with belle)
- Then shown an older Belle happy with a family and then Scrooge refuses to watch
Stave 3 :
- Ghost of present appears in his house with food he then takes him to his clerk house Bob to
see his family happy and warns that tiny Tim will die
- They travel around the world to see happy families like in Fred house where they make fun
of Scrooge unhappy attitudes
- It ends on a somber note seeing children hidden in the ghost cloak (ignorance and want
)(they are dangerous)
Stave 4:
- Ghost of yet to come takes him to future where he is hinted of a dead man by his stuff being
sold and easily talked about
- Then taken to cart hits mourning for tiny tim
- Reveals Scrooge graveyard and there Scrooge promises to change and celebrate
Stave 5 :
- He wakes up in bedroom on Christmas and acts generous to charity and children and
bob(gives turkey) and goes to Fred house for Christmas
- Ends telling us that tiny Tim doesn't die but that Scrooge becomes like his second father and
that he celebrates Christmas for the rest of his life
Characters essay plans:
SCROOGE-utilised to be direct antithesis of all the values (capitalism,greed and socialism)dickens is
against.constructed as an allegorical character demonstrating although his negative attitudes
(ignorant to misfortune of poor) (archetypal villain) a metamorphosis still is possible and so can the
Victorian readers(promote).Also used to criticise the alienating effects of capitalist Victorians
resulting in his misanthropic persona overcame through family
“Solitary as an oyster”(stave 1) Squeezing wrenching grasping scraping
Ebenezer scrooge cluchting(stave 1)
Very small fire(stave 1) Decrease the surplus population(stave 1)
Ogre(stave 3) Humbug(stave 1)
I am as light as a feather…as a boy(stave 5) A solitary child neglected…left there still(stave
infinitely 2)
