Category: A Christmas Carol

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,…

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…

At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is portrayed as a hardhearted man and very unsociable. He struggles to connect with others but out of his own choice. Scrooge is shown as selfish and as someone who doesn’t care for others at the start of the novel with Marley’s funeral. He shows little sympathy and…

When Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol it was a response to British social attitudes towards poverty, particularly child poverty, and wished to use the novella as a means to put forward his arguments against it and how people should change for the better especially the rich who dickens saw as hoarding wealth and not paying…

In A Christmas Carol Dickens uses the theme of poverty for the Cratchit family to show how most poor lives lived, on the other hand, the rich lived happily in Victorian Society. In A Christmas Carol stave 1 Scrooge does not lots of what the Cratchits are going through by shows his ignorance to Bob…

Dickens explicitly criticizes the issues of poverty in Victorian society in this excerpt. For this, he utilizes the characters of Ignorance and Wants as allegories, depicting them as victims of severe deprivation, emphasizing the challenges faced by the poor and the situations under which they lived. Dickens uses the characters of Indifference and tries to…