In His Biography of Charles Dickens, Edgar Johnson Writes ‘’a Christmas Carol’ Is a Parable of Social Redemption and Scrooge’s Conversion Is the Conversion for Which Dickens Hopes Among Mankind’ Discuss.
'A Christmas Carol’ is a novella written by Charles Dickens which illustrates a somewhat happy Christmas story that highlights the importance of being a kind hearted person. Throughout his novella, Dickens’s shows the reader his intended moral of the story, that Scrooge’s transformation at the end of the novella is what Dickens’s hopes that our world will too surely change. This is evident throughout the novella as he depicts Scrooge (before the conversion), the main character; to stand for all that Dickens is against. He also puts the idea of Utilitarianism into the way Scrooge acts at the start of the novella, which Dickens also seems to dislike. Dickens then goes on to describe Scrooge, after his conversion, in a different way to at the start of the novella, which depicts all that Dicken wishes human kind would act.
It is clear to the reader from the start of the novella that Dickens believes that a person like Scrooge is the type of person that Dickens dislikes. Right from the start of the novella, Dickens describes Scrooge as ‘self-contained, and solitary as an oyster’ which clearly outlines that Scrooge is a person who keeps to himself and does not really have another companion to share his life with. Dickens also uses the weather to show Scrooge in a way that is negative. He describes Scrooge in many ways, such as, ‘he carried his own low temperature always about with him’, which explains that Scrooge takes his bad manners and temper wherever he goes. Dickens also describes Scrooge as a man who does not get affected by anything, by saying ‘No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him’. In contrast to Scrooge’s ‘cold weather’ attitude, Dickens uses another character, Fred, who is Scrooge’s nephew, to show just how bad Scrooge’s character really is. Dickens does this by describing Fred as ‘all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled’ which are much are appealing to a reader as the visuals are much more warm and friendly, when
It is clear to the reader from the start of the novella that Dickens believes that a person like Scrooge is the type of person that Dickens dislikes. Right from the start of the novella, Dickens describes Scrooge as ‘self-contained, and solitary as an oyster’ which clearly outlines that Scrooge is a person who keeps to himself and does not really have another companion to share his life with. Dickens also uses the weather to show Scrooge in a way that is negative. He describes Scrooge in many ways, such as, ‘he carried his own low temperature always about with him’, which explains that Scrooge takes his bad manners and temper wherever he goes. Dickens also describes Scrooge as a man who does not get affected by anything, by saying ‘No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him’. In contrast to Scrooge’s ‘cold weather’ attitude, Dickens uses another character, Fred, who is Scrooge’s nephew, to show just how bad Scrooge’s character really is. Dickens does this by describing Fred as ‘all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled’ which are much are appealing to a reader as the visuals are much more warm and friendly, when