Essays on A Christmas Carol

Throughout the 1951 adaptation Scrooge, and the novel by Charles Dickens on which it is based, A Christmas Carol, several themes such as the supernatural and poverty are explored through the character of Scrooge. However, the film version makes room for many new aspects of…

Somewhere in the dirty city of Victorian London, Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly main character of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, sits in the ice-cold air of his counting house in the company of his less-than-well-paid clerk, Bob Cratchit, thinking about the next way to make…

Different people have varying opinions on what literature is, but what is it really? Literature has one correct definition, despite what other people think and say. If something is to be considered literature, then it must meet three main criteria. The piece of writing must…

In The Christmas Carol, Marley’s plan to save Scrooge from eternal torture as a ghost worked due to the fact that he became a kinder person and did more good deeds. The plan, as Marley said, was that Scrooge would be haunted by three ghosts…

A Christmas carol is set in the Victorian era where there was a large divide between the rich and the poor. Dickens uses the allegorical character of ‘Scrooge’ to display the attitudes of the rich and fortunate towards those suffering through poverty and his exaggeration…

A Christmas Carol I went and saw A Christmas Carol at Hale Center Theater in Orem. I really liked the costumes of the show. They were very fitting of the time-period the show was set in. They were wearing old English styling with big hoop…