Grade 9 Analysis A Christmas Carol (Structure) Mr Salles

[@NoahDaBoa]

Just watched the whole thing! This is such a helpful and well made video. Thankyou sir.

[@MrSallesTeachesEnglish]

Thanks Noah, I'm not sure if the animated style is going to catch on, but I like it. We will see. They take longer to make, and in theory are easier to watch.

[@NoahDaBoa]

@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish the extra comments were helpful, being honest I don't mind either!

[@Carriacou66]

Hi Mr Salles , you are such an amazing English teacher and have helped my daughter have a much better understanding of English . I was just wondering if u could please do some videos on Frankenstein (GCSE) as there is a lack of good resources online. Thank you

[@MrSallesTeachesEnglish]

Annoyingly, KZbin downgrade your channel if you release videos few people want to watch (although they deny this happens) so it is too high risk for me to make Frankenstein videos. I will look into it though.

[@Carriacou66]

Thank you I will keep an eye on your channel. 😀

[@madhatter8653]

These are very helpful, specially during lockdown. Thank you!

[@Faithjohnson3467]

YOUR THE BEST MR SALLES. THANK YOU!

[@user-gi3yr1gl7j]

you have no idea how I appreciate your help!!!!!!!

[@solaymanbhuiyan3993]

love your videos, revising for my english mock(today), going to sleep now, bye. And thank you for helping me to jump from an average grade 5-6 to 9

[@MrSallesTeachesEnglish]

Well done

[@lolllsdfkjllsflkhkjlfs]

hello ! i'm a yr10 who struggles in English; however, i am actually really aiming for top grades in both English Lang and Lit. Do you have any advice at all?? Thank you so much! (I mainly struggle with English Lang, and that's affecting my Literature too :/)

[@MrSallesTeachesEnglish]

I have a huge amount of advice, all free in my videos. Or look for the links in the video description, and consider buying any of my guides. They are all aimed at getting grades 7-9.

[@lolllsdfkjllsflkhkjlfs]

@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish okay!! i've heard that your videos are really useful! thank you :)

[@MKhan-qe9lp]

Unfortunately I have made the decision to drop a christmas carol but I'll still watch these videos because they are still great.I ain't gonna let KZbin downgrade your channel otherwise I'll sue em!!!

[@saharsurkhabi7680]

Hi Mr Salles, can you please make videos on King Lear, Duchess of Malfi and Streetcar? It would be extremely helpful for my alevels 🙂

[@tasha1955]

Could you say that A Christmas carol juxtaposes the theory of Aristole's elements of tradgedy, for it takes place in one setting as his spirit left his body, his physical form staying in the bedroom, Scrooge's change into a 'good man' created by this morality play almost it set up as if a tradgedy gone backwards. For Scrooge's body is so cold it 'nipped his' chin. Him and Marley are 'two kindred sprits' inferring that in the beginning of A Christmas Carol Scrooge may as well be a corpse, 'no fire could warm him'. He's so devoid of all 'sprit' that much like Marley his soul may as well be floating around with 'heavy chains' on it. 'Kindred' meaning similar but also sounding like 'kinder', wood for a fire- the fire of which cannot warm him- almost as if he's being cremated, as he is morally dead in the expostion. He finally rests after the presentation of Marley, where his soul ungoes a complete emotional transformation, leaving him 'merry' and hearing angels sing- almost as if he's now in heaven- heaven on earth. Dickens has perhaps done this, for his original precept was to educate the ignorant upper classes of their wrongdoings, to do this he had to make as little biblical references as possible. Resorting to using pagan-like deities instead of christian gods. For Christianity was the main issue- for the poor would assend to heaven and live a greater life after death. Meaning the rich didn't help, or feel guilty for exploiting the poor and their workers for they would find happiness in heaven. The idea of heaven being on earth means that the rich are accountable for the health and happiness of their workers in real time, this shown by the use of fezziwig, a resprentation of what a 'good boss' would look like, a man who would spend 'five pounds' on a celebration just to make their employees 'merry'- even thawing the coldness of Scrooge's deceased demeanor.

[@ameerali3515]

Hi Mr Salles , you are an amazing teacher. I want to ask when you will release an ACC revision guide , if you ever will. Thanks.

[@MrSallesTeachesEnglish]

I am not sure - I am writing it one video at a time.

[@aphradite321]

You know on the sample questions, im a little confused about your answer on question 1. seems to focus on why he's done this (to encourage his wealthy readers to think about the poor) but it says 'how' so wouldn't that mean how dickens has done this, wouldn't that question need quotations of the novella to show how Dickens has done this.

[@MrSallesTeachesEnglish]

No, you don't need quotations to show the 'how', just need references.

[@saharsurkhabi7680]

Hi mr salles. I have commented on many of your videos and haven’t gotten a response. Anyways, can you make videos on King Lear please and your Macbeth videos were extremely helpful

[@MrSallesTeachesEnglish]

Sorry Sahar, not enough students study King Lear for me to get many views

[@saharsurkhabi7680]

😔😢😭

[@rli867]

Wow!

[@YK-qo6uf]

Hi sir, please can you mark my English essay on Mr Birling and give me a grade. My teacher hasn’t really responded to us during lockdown and i would really appreciate some feedback. In J.B Priestley’s post-war enigmatic morality play, Mr Birling is depicted as a hateful emblem of a self-seeking capitalist state which Priestley believes requires urgent dismantling. The characterisation of Mr Birling to epitomise arrogance allows the audience to condemn capitalism as Mr Birling’s selfish nature develops through the play. Priestley in the exposition of the play exposes the power differential between Mr Birling and then rest of his patriarchal society when Priestley writes in the stage directions that he is “provincial in his speech”. Here, the pre-modifying adjective “provincial” implies that Mr Birling is unrefined and perhaps uneducated making his beliefs of society ignorant and uniformed. Alternately, when Mr Birling tells Gerald that “you ought to like this port” and that it is “the same port your father gets from him”, here “provincial” could add to the motif of dramatic irony as his accent would have been highlighted through “ought” and “port”. This demonstrates how Mr Birling is far from aristocracy, and is lacking superiority he thinks he has attained through comparing himself to Gerald’s father, consolidating ideas of how Priestley wants the audience to view as narrow-minded and foolish. The construct of Mr Birling is conveyed as a myopic “business man’’ who is used by Priestley as a vehicle to expound his own socialistic ideals in post-war Britain. Mr Birling constantly refers to himself as a “hard-headed man of business” throughout the play. Here, this compound adjective phrase not only implies that he is a resilient business man, but also that Birling is apathetic. A “hard-head” has connotations of being dispassionate and indifferent which here Priestley used to foreshadow Mr Birling’s unwillingness to accept responsibility for Eva’s death and to ultimately show the selfish of capitalism. This is further emphasised through how Birling aims for “lower costs and higher prices”. Priestley here emphasises the capitalistic exploitation of Mr Birling’s intentions and the juxtaposition of “lower” and “higher” highlights the disparity between the upper and lower classes. As Birling is also the symbolic of the deadly sin gluttony, overall Birling’s speech creates lexical fields of greed and selfishness again Priestley using to downgrade capitalism. Priestley uses Mr Birling to be an antithesis to Inspector Google to further highlight the unscrupulous of capitalism over a virtuous socialism. In the Inspector’s final speech, using the Biblical triplet “fire, blood and anguish” creates a lexical of hell and doom. Here Priestley hints that without socialistic conformity, acceptance of culpability and an increase in moral radar, we as “one body” face turmoil in the hand of our capitalistic selfishness. Priestley believed this as him and 12 million others votes labour allowing them to win for the first time in 1945. In addition, the claustrophobic setting created by the oxymoron “heavily comfortable” also helps to highlight the “massiveness” of the Inspector and how ‘he speaks carefully, weighty”. This creates a semantic field of size which tries to weight on the moral conscience of Birling. However, as he only offers “I’d give thousands - yes, thousands -“ for the “millions and millions and millions of John Smiths and Eva Smiths”, this shows that you could just not change Mr Birling’s ideas - just like how capitalism could not conform to something better. Overall, Mr Birling is used as a construct by Priestley to show the faults of capitalism. The motif of dramatic irony throughout the play enforces the audience to compare capitalism to socialism, the latter perpetuating equality and justice. Thus, Priestley uses Mr Birling to expound the faults in his audience so that they could change the bit of Mr Birling that is in themselves and overall a whole society

[@jesscaaskew]

How long did this take you, what is your predicted grade? Gosh, the language you have used makes me feel like I am dumb, sounds good though.

[@YK-qo6uf]

Jessica Askew I’m in year 10 and have been getting 6s. My English teacher only marks our assessments which we have 3 times a year. She doesn’t mark our homework so I have no idea what my predicted grade is but I’m really trying for a 9. It took me about 45 minutes 😃

[@tasha1955]

@@YK-qo6uf That's the same time as an essay. I'm in year eleven and if thats a 6, I'm going to fail.

[@ollie5845]

The language, overall knowledge of the play and structure is excellent. Definitely beyond a 6, but schools always downplay your grades to up their progress charts. Try to include more alternative interpretations and focus on intentions more, though I'm confident this would be a level 6 response and likely get 30/30

[@GermanShepherd2]

@@jesscaaskew Inspector Google

[@arakurd6351]

An amazing video Sir, but I dont understand the whole narrator thing: why is the narrator a ghost and not just a normal omniscient narrator that it present in most novels? Thanks.

[@MrSallesTeachesEnglish]

It makes the narrator more comic, and allows Dickens to control the tone, so that we laugh at Scrooge's horrible, misanthropic personality, and are therefore rooting for him at the same time as despising him. It also minimises the spookiness of the ghost story, which would otherwise detract from the moral messages of the plot.

[@arakurd6351]

@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish ty Sir.

[@tahamuhammad5454]

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