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How does Dickens' presentation of the four ghosts in 'A Christmas Carol' teach both scrooge and his readers a lesson about life? A ghost is a transparent figure of a dead person. In ghost stories we expect graveyards, the darkness, peculiar noises and scary figures/shadows. People are scared of ghosts because they are related with death. We don't know what death feels like so we are scared of what it holds. Dickens was trying to highlight the inequality and injustice of Britain at that time. Most of his novels are set in London and many of his characters are from underprivileged, poor backgrounds. E.g. scrooge exploits Bob Cratchet by making him work for low wages and in bad condition. In the beginning of the novel dickens leaves us in no doubt that scrooge is a very unpleasant man. Scrooge is described as "secret, self contained and solitary as an oyster. Dickens describes Marley's ghost...

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