GCSE English Literature | Themes and characters in A Christmas Carol | Bitesize | GCSE Revision

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A Christmas Carol Study Guide - https://bbc.in/44isBZi
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Get ready to thrive in your English Literature exams with this video guide!

Carl Anka recaps the story of A Christmas Carol, discussing the key themes and characters to help you revise for your English Literature GCSE.

⏯️ Key points in the video:

00:07: Introduction.
00:59: Stave 1: Christmas Eve.
01:20: Key quote: “…a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
01:57: Key quote: “the only time when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.”
02:09: Key quote: “Bah humbug.”
03:00: Stave 2: The Ghost of Christmas Past.
03:48: Stave 3: The Ghost of Christmas Present.
04:43: Key quote: “If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
05:08: Stave 4: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
06:18: Stave 5: Scrooge’s Redemption.
06:55: “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.”
07:14: Outro.

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