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Setting and Props GapFill
You must fill all the gaps before clicking ‘Check Answers!’ This quiz focuses on AO1 (Read, understand and respond to texts) and AO3 (Discuss the context of texts).
A Christmas Carol was published in December . Like much of Dickens' work, it is set in . The story begins on and ends on .
At the beginning of the text, Dickens describes the weather as ' , bleak, biting weather'. There is a clear link between the weather outside and Scrooge's character here; Dickens emphasises this by using in his description of Scrooge in Stave One: 'The cold within him froze his old features'. There is a clear made in Stave Five when the weather is described at the end of the text: 'No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold'.
Throughout the text, we see a number of settings. First we see where Scrooge works, then where he lives. Dickens emphasises the cold in both of these places through his description of the in each: 'it looked like one coal'; 'it was a very low fire indeed' (Stave One). We clearly see that Scrooge does not spend his money on comfort. In contrast to Scrooge's house, we are shown three homes: Belle's, the Cratchits' and Fred's. In all three there is love, family and Christmas cheer, and it is made clear to us that Scrooge is missing out because of his attitude to family and Christmas.
In , Dickens has shown how different people celebrate Christmas in order to demonstrate the warmth and cheer that Christmas can bring, no matter who you are, where you are, or how much you have. Even on a 'bleak and desert moor' and a 'dismal reef of sunken rocks' (Stave Three), people are celebrating Christmas.
Dickens shows the rich and poor sides of London, through both his description of the shops filled with Christmas food – 'The Grocers'! oh, the Grocers'!' – in Stave Three, and, later, in his description of place in Stave Four: 'The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched'. He does this to show the enormous gap between rich and poor and to emphasise the of this.
The text ends back where it started, in Scrooge's workplace, only now he tells Bob to 'Make up the '. This link to the beginning of the text demonstrates the change that has occurred in him.