How Does Dickens Establish Mood/tone in This Extract in a Christmas Carol

Dickens present the mood as dark and cold. This shows the personality of Scrooge and the mood will change throughout the novella. Dickens wants to show the reader that Scrooge has the ability to have Christmas Spirit and he will transform from a strict person to a nice and good person.

At the start of the extract Dickens present a dark and cold weather which shows Scrooge`s personality. This is evidence in the quote“ as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there. The cold became intense. „ Dickens uses personification to describe the cold and gloomy weather. It creates a dark atmosphere. Dickens uses the weather to show that Scrooge is a dark person and he made everything surrounding him became miserable.“The cold became intense. „This suggests that Scrooge carried the coldness with him always, and‘intense‘ means he’s a very very cold person.

In stave 1 Dickens creates the mood by describing Scrooge‘s characterisations.“ A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! „ This shows that Scrooge is a stingy, grasping miser who exists only for money and he holds his money very tightly and is not willing to let it go. He earned lots of money. He was not generous with his money. Dickens uses simile to describe Scrooge as a tough and weird person. This is evidence from the quote“ solitary as an oyster. „ Oyster shells are calcified, hard and irregular in shape. This simile suggests that Scrooge also has these tough and strange qualities and that he is hard to‘open . ‚ But inside the oyster there is a pearl. This represents the idea that Scrooge has the ability to produce something good, positive. This tells the reader that Scrooge can be change. He can be a good guy. This also reflects his achievement of moral redemption at the end of the novella.