1. 5s Why did Mr Birling sack Eva Smith?
The Titanic is a metaphor for the ‘sinking’ of the wealthy upper class. What might Eva Smith be a metaphor for?
What 2 MAJOR world events happened between when the play was set and when it was written/performed?
Complete this quotation ‘We don’t live alone…’
What word would you use to describe the younger Birlings at the end of the play?

2. Plot

3. ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens
What happens in each Stave?
Write a sentence for each.

4. ‘A Christmas Carol’
Stave 1 – reader is introduced to Ebenezer Scrooge and the dead Jacob Marley on Christmas Eve Stave 2 – Christmas Past which represents memory takes Scrooge back to his past Stave 3 – Christmas Present takes him round London and the world to show celebrations Stave 4 – Phantom – Christmas yet to come – does not speak. Scrooge now willing to learn Stave 5 – Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning – alive and determined to change. Sense of completion and possibility.

5. Form
Novella – short to be read at one sitting – ideal Christmas entertainment
Ghost story – combined with a moral tale of redemption
Wanted to appeal to the spirit of Christmas and show the power of kindness and family love
Extremely successful – first print sold out by Christmas Eve

6. Structure
5 staves – like a carol as a stave is a musical term. A carol focuses on joy and giving.
Past/present/yet to come – 3 spirits
Clear beginning, middle and end
Story about a miser who is transformed.
Importance of social justice and reform

7. Typical 5 part structure
Exposition – introduction of main characters and basic conflict
Rising action – series of events leading to the story’s climax
Climax – peak of the action after which everything changes
Falling action – final part which decides who wins and loses
Denouement – how the character finally ends up – happily or unhappily

9. Context

10. Quotations to learn ‘hard and sharp as flint’ (Stave 1)
‘as solitary as an oyster’ (Stave 1)
‘I wear the chains I forged in life...of my own free will’ (Stave 1)
'A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still’ (Stave 2)
‘a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds’ (Stave 3)
‘I am light as a feather, I am happy as an angel’. (Stave 5)