How Does Dickens Present Scrooge In A Christmas Carol
Discuss how dickens uses “A Christmas Carol,” and the character of scrooge to promote a more caring, less selfish society.
In the 19th century, the poor people faced a very atrocious and frightful life in London. They starved if they had no jobs and had nowhere to live except for streets which were filthy and filled with crime. There was a poor law, as there weren’t even state benefits and if someone couldn’t pay the rent for the room they were given to stay in they were moved to union workhouses or prisons, which they unfortunately died in. Dickens uses these them of poor and rich in his novel through the character of scrooge to show people are just for the greed of money and how they can change, which puts quite a truthful moral to this …show more content…
Seeing his classmates brings him to tears, and he starts to regret that he did not give anything to the boy who sang a carol at the counting house door earlier that evening. They then move onto a scene where fezziwig, scrooge’s old employer has given them a Christmas party n everyone is enjoying, the ghost asks scrooge,
“Why! Is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three
Or four, perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?”
Scrooge starts explaining how his power lies in his words and in things so slight and insignificant that is impossible to count up and the happiness he gives them costs a fortune, while he is saying this remembers about his clerk and wishes he could say a few things to Bob Crachit, which shows us that there is vast changes being made to his outlook in life as his thinking is changing.
Scrooge sees a bright light in the next room and follows it as he sees a giant surrounded by a feast of Christmas foods filling the room, which was the ghost of Christmas present. He takes scrooge to Bob Crachits house where everyone is preparing their meagre Christmas feast, while at the same time Tiny Tim enters with Bob and has crutches. Bob starts crying and
In the 19th century, the poor people faced a very atrocious and frightful life in London. They starved if they had no jobs and had nowhere to live except for streets which were filthy and filled with crime. There was a poor law, as there weren’t even state benefits and if someone couldn’t pay the rent for the room they were given to stay in they were moved to union workhouses or prisons, which they unfortunately died in. Dickens uses these them of poor and rich in his novel through the character of scrooge to show people are just for the greed of money and how they can change, which puts quite a truthful moral to this …show more content…
Seeing his classmates brings him to tears, and he starts to regret that he did not give anything to the boy who sang a carol at the counting house door earlier that evening. They then move onto a scene where fezziwig, scrooge’s old employer has given them a Christmas party n everyone is enjoying, the ghost asks scrooge,
“Why! Is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three
Or four, perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?”
Scrooge starts explaining how his power lies in his words and in things so slight and insignificant that is impossible to count up and the happiness he gives them costs a fortune, while he is saying this remembers about his clerk and wishes he could say a few things to Bob Crachit, which shows us that there is vast changes being made to his outlook in life as his thinking is changing.
Scrooge sees a bright light in the next room and follows it as he sees a giant surrounded by a feast of Christmas foods filling the room, which was the ghost of Christmas present. He takes scrooge to Bob Crachits house where everyone is preparing their meagre Christmas feast, while at the same time Tiny Tim enters with Bob and has crutches. Bob starts crying and