'A Christmas Carol': a Victorian ghost story
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I can explain why Dickens used the ‘ghost story’ genre to underpin his didactic message.
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Dickens was influential in establishing the ghost story as a popular genre in the Victorian period.
Dickens capitalised on the popularity of this genre to spread his social message: he wanted this to be a best seller.
Unlike the ghosts of early Gothic fiction, Dickens made the supernatural a natural extension of the real world.
Dickens uses the ghosts as a literary device that enables him to explore moral and social issues.
The apparitions structure the narrative and move it towards Stave 5, where we see Scrooge’s impressive transformation.
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