The 10 Most Important Quotes in A Christmas Carol

Studying 'A Christmas Carol'? Dr Aidan, PhD, provides you with the 10 key quotes in Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol', along with in-depth analysis, to help you gain a greater understanding of this thought-provoking book. Perfect for GCSE students.

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SHELL WITH PEARL

SHELL 2 - NO PEARL

[argh]

redemption story - mean and uncharitable > kind and generous through embracing christmas spirit
isolation - scrooge was the only person there (sole said 6 times) - needs to create active role in community
icy cold - never shows warm emotions to others
solitary as an oyster - alone and hard exterior, oysters contain pears (potentially valued soul?)
christmas - idea of christmas introduced by fred > generous and kind has greater value than money
social duty - poor wants death more than working > scrooge thinks this is good (thomas malthus beliefs)
eternal suffering - marley learnt the purpose of life is to bring happiness to them, not optional ‘required’, marley didnt do this in his earthly life causing imprisonment and torture, warns scrooge
ghost of past - shows scrooge forgotten memories before rude, including fezziwigs party ( doesnt take much money just effort )
lost love (first spirit )- scrooge worshipped money not his fiance, later shows the future he could have had
christmas present - abundance in world could be shared, scrooges purpose is to share this. would’ve been easy for scrooge to help the cratchits
values (2nd) - shows scrooge child will die, reminds scrooge of ‘decrease the surplus population’, knows tiny tim as individual not idea of poor
3rd spirit - shows people taking belongings to sell from dead mans body, doesnt change leads to him hated and forgotten
redemption - generous to poor, happiness to cratchits (pay rise, turkey)
scrooge uses money to help others not only make him wealthy > needs to remember happiness from past, generous to present leads to better future
purpose of life > make others happy which leads to our happiness

[Bleedv]

Thanks you have helped me more in this video than my teachers in 2 years

[keeganport]

Lockdown really got me watching this shit for my GCSE

[darceydoesdrawing]

you manage to do what it takes my teachers months to do in 4, 10 minute videos.

[torymonarchist]

You're literally carrying me through Literature GCSE, you're amazing 🙏🏾

[shabd_]

This was really helpful as it was Clear and got straight to the point.

[kaylebollin]

I've never read the story. But the Alistair Sim version of the film apparently does it justice, because all of these quotes were pretty accurately represented in it. Great story and a great movie!

[spiraleddays]

My lit paper 1 tomorrow this is helping me write a practice paragraph of scrooges change and metamorphosis over the novella

[tanak]

he sounds so much like my physics teacher i literally thought he teaches two subjects

[sofiakidner]

I have my exam in 2 hours this helped a lot thank you :)

[Jess_lavender]

i have an english literature mock today, this helped me a lot thank you!

[thedetectorist]

Got my English lit mock exam today and this has helped me alot

[thatperson]

Thank you so much, your very good at explaining them helping me for my y11 mocks tomorrow at 9:00am!!

[Random_Person]

Watching this 2 hours before my exam, no prior revision done

[harveycook]

Very useful as we need for section B !

[dann]

I wish I found out about you earlier, I have my English literature paper 1 tomorrow and I’m probably going to have to retake again :(

Update - I did better than I expected, thanks for making these vids:)

[kalsterdxb]

Really helped, what technique was the second quote?thanks

[bunyutes]

Thanks so much my teachers don’t even know how to explain a point fully

[janolianna]

I'm really surprised that I got as much out of this video as I did. Thank you for posting! <3 :)

[lucyquinn]

thankyou this is amazing and soo helpful, keep up the good work :)