Category: A Christmas Carol

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour., is the original famous phrase said by Ebenezer Scrooge in a Christmas Carol by Charles Dicken. A Christmas Carol is a novella by…

Dickens presents each of the four ghosts in very different ways as they contrast one another throughout the novel. He uses the views and reactions of the character Scrooge and the physical descriptions of the ghosts to portray their moral significance. The novel is split into five staves (or chapters) with the three ghosts of…

Social Darwinism is a bias between social groups. The idea that the rich or those who have a higher quality of education are somehow better and more powerful than the poor or those who are unschooled or uncultured. There is also a misconception that the rich work harder and the poor are just lazy. One…

A Christmas Carol is an ideal movie for anyone wanting to witness what some people experience throughout the holidays. The movie is set in England, and it accounts for some of the most crucial years in the world, the early to mid-1800s. This was a time of change, especially in England. A Christmas Carol overlooks…

On November 29th, 2019 I went with my family to see A Christmas Carol, the Patrick Barlow adaptation. It was playing live in Nashville at the Nashville Repertory Theatre. It was an amazing play that somehow only included five real stage actors. The plot of the play was the same as the original text by…

Charles Dickens’ holiday classic is made over in ‘A Broadway Christmas Carol’ with parodies of famous musicals such as ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ Annie, and Chicago. What a brilliant idea! I attended the musical ‘A Broadway Christmas Carol’, which is produced by the University of Colorado in Boulder, at the CU boulder theater on Saturday,…

This essay explores ideas on how Scrooge is presented as an outsider throughout the novella and will identify and analyze techniques used by Dickens. Dickens presents Scrooge as an outsider through his initial description of the character. External heat had little influence on Scrooge. The use of pathetic fallacy emphasizes the idea of Scrooge being…

People know quite a lot about addiction – not only about drug addiction and alcoholism, but also about bulimia, shopaholism and deceit. Cinematography is often referred to the topic of non-chemical dependencies: these topics are touched upon, for example, in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash. However, in the classical literature, other types…