T4-E-022-A-Christmas-Carol-Scrooges-Transformation-Lesson-One-Pack. GCSE_English_Literature_for_AQA_A_Christmas_Carol_Teachers_Resource_Free_Online. Teaching 'A Christmas Carol'. Illustrated by Ronald Searle, in Life Magazine, 1960.
Reading a classic novella like ‘A Christmas Carol’ is tricky for our teenage students. Yes, they have likely heard of Scrooge and seen a film adaptation or three, but when faced with the actual text and the world of the story, with its antiquated social context and complex vocabulary, it proves a difficult challenge. Ghosts in A Christmas Carol. The ghosts in A Christmas Carol are by turns comic, grotesque and allegorical.
Professor John Mullan reflects on their essential role in developing the novel’s meaning and structure. There had been ghosts in literature before the Victorians, but the ghost story as a distinct and popular genre was the invention of the Victorians. Dickens was hugely influential in establishing the genre’s popularity – not only as a writer but also as an editor: his journals Household Words and All the Year Round specialised in ghost stories, and other contemporary journals followed. Dickens’s close friend and biographer John Forster said that the novelist had ‘a hankering after ghosts’. Juvenile crime in the 19th century.