A Christmas Carol - Summary
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is written by Charles Dickens. The book was published in 1843 in the Victorian era. The book was based around a self absorbed, miserable and bitter character named Scrooge, who detest Christmas and although wealthy he is also miserly. The book’s storyline is that, Scrooge is visited by ghosts, who reveal to him his future life and death. The horror of finding out that his demise is perilous.
This book also shows how poor Victorians suffer and the treatment they used to get. The poor were sent to workhouses and scrooge was happy about this. Not because workhouses were helping the poor it was more of a punishment. Scrooge was ignorant in the fact that he believed the conditions the poor lived in were self-inflicted, ‘I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there’ he believes they are uneducated and lazy so they deserve it. However in reality most people if given the opportunity and education would try to alleviate the quality of their lives.
The Cratchit’s symbolize happiness in the story, but when they show tiny Tim dying in the future it touches many hearts. This is because his illness is curable if the Cratchit family did not have financial difficulties. The reason Dickens includes this in the story is to show how ignorant the rich people were to the poor and also to show how many poor families were going through the same scenario in real life. During the 1830s more than half the deaths were child-related. Moreover, Dickens wanted to irradiate a false sense of scrutiny held by most wealthy people that they were doing enough to help the poor when in reality they were not ‘a few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund, buy the poor people some meat and drinks, and means of warmth we choose this time of year because it is a time of all others’. This suggests they only help once a year. If so then they are not
A Christmas Carol is written by Charles Dickens. The book was published in 1843 in the Victorian era. The book was based around a self absorbed, miserable and bitter character named Scrooge, who detest Christmas and although wealthy he is also miserly. The book’s storyline is that, Scrooge is visited by ghosts, who reveal to him his future life and death. The horror of finding out that his demise is perilous.
This book also shows how poor Victorians suffer and the treatment they used to get. The poor were sent to workhouses and scrooge was happy about this. Not because workhouses were helping the poor it was more of a punishment. Scrooge was ignorant in the fact that he believed the conditions the poor lived in were self-inflicted, ‘I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there’ he believes they are uneducated and lazy so they deserve it. However in reality most people if given the opportunity and education would try to alleviate the quality of their lives.
The Cratchit’s symbolize happiness in the story, but when they show tiny Tim dying in the future it touches many hearts. This is because his illness is curable if the Cratchit family did not have financial difficulties. The reason Dickens includes this in the story is to show how ignorant the rich people were to the poor and also to show how many poor families were going through the same scenario in real life. During the 1830s more than half the deaths were child-related. Moreover, Dickens wanted to irradiate a false sense of scrutiny held by most wealthy people that they were doing enough to help the poor when in reality they were not ‘a few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund, buy the poor people some meat and drinks, and means of warmth we choose this time of year because it is a time of all others’. This suggests they only help once a year. If so then they are not