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Comparison of 'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy and 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens
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Compare The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy with A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Focus particularly on each writers' use of language and the way in which he deals with the supernatural. 'The Withered Arm' and 'A Christmas Carol' are both short stories written in the nineteenth century and both discuss the interesting genre of the supernatural. The stories both base their theme on the ghostlike activities as it was a very popular aspect at the time which was highly speculated. Many people were open minded to the fact that ghosts did exist as this provided explanations for happenings which they had no answer to. Diseases that doctors couldn't find a cure for was often blamed on the paranormal, for example the classic myth of witches. Both these stories delve into this insight in their own different methods. The main themes of the two stories are about that of the supernatural....
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