Read this extract from Stave Two of the novella then answer the question that follows.
The Ghost of Christmas Past has just appeared to Scrooge whilst was is in bed.
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It was a strange figure-- like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old
man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the
appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a
child's proportions. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back,
was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the
tenderest bloom was on the skin. The arms were very long and muscular;
the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength. Its legs and
feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. It
wore a tunic of the purest white and round its waist was bound a lustrous
belt, the sheen of which was beautiful. It held a branch of fresh green holly
in its hand; and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its
dress trimmed with summer flowers. But the strangest thing about it was,
that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by
which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using
in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held
under its arm.
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Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the supernatural in A Christmas Caron?
Write about:
how Dickens presents the supernatural in this extract
how Dickens presents the supernatural in the novel as a whole.
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