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A Christmas Carol is probably best known now as a story exploited by Hollywood repeatedly in straight adaptations (Disney抯 included) and altered versions such as the Bill Murray comedy Scrooged. Regardless of how it is now known it is certainly well known, and its anti-hero Scrooge represents curmudgeonly and stingy attitudes outside the context of the book. It was published a Christmas book in 1843 and is quite a simple tale but successful for that reason. Scrooge is avaricious, misanthropic and heartless, showing no feeling for the Christmas spirit After he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Marley, he sees visions of his past, present and future that inspire him to become a zealously kind and amiable individual who sends a turkey to his clerk Bob Cratchit and gives to Christmas charities generously. It is a somewhat saccharine tale and is not one of Dickens?finer works but the story itself is heartening and is a proposed alternative to the grim and stern Puritan values of the Victorian age. |
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport,
Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight
children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial
insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent
to work in London backing warehouse, where his job was to paste
labels on bottles for six shillings a week. His father John
Dickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. When he was
condemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed
that Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while the
rest of the family joined him in jail. This three-month separation
caused Charles much pain; his experiences as a child alone in a
huge city–cold, isolated with barely enough to eat–haunted him for
the rest of his life. |
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