Form

• explain dickens message: social commentary

  raise awareness of extreme social / economic divide (Victorian society)
• explain dickens message: Suffering

  Result of ignorance of wealthy in society respect of the want of the poor
• explain dickens message: Kindness

  Solve many of there problems
• explain dickens message: Wealthy people have ability to support poor if…

  They acknowledge their suffering
• explain dickens message: Christian morals

  All have capacity to learn, change, be better
• explain dickens message: Responsibility

  Can make a change
• Novella?


  Short novella means the story can be read aloud in a short space of time, making it the ideal Christmas entertainment
• Victorian novel?


  Uses didactic function of novels at the time to impact a message and teach readers about the true meaning of christmas
• Ghost story?

  Dickens novella features four ghosts in total: Jacob Marley, three ghosts of Christmas. He combines the tradition of reading ghost stories with a moral tale of redemption