A Christmas Carol

why would dickens compare marley to a doorknmocker?

why would dickens compare marley to a doorknmocker?

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The Christmas Carol would have been sort of a gothic horror tale were it not for its themes of morality and its happy ending. The rather gothic doorknocker represents Marley's torturous existence in the afterlife.

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