A CHRISTMAS CAROL by CHARLES DICKENS.It is hard to believe that there is anyone on the planet who is not familiar with the story of A Christmas Carol, a novel by Charles Dickens first published on December 19, 1843. The tale, written during a time of decline in the old Christmas traditions, has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time and is also regarded as one of the best ghost stories.
Dickens divides his literary work into five "staves" instead of chapters:
Stave I– Marley’s Ghost,
Stave II - The First of the Three Spirits,
Stave III - The Second of the Three Spirits,
Stave IV - The Last of the Three Spirits,
Stave V - The End of it.
The story deals extensively with two of Dickens' recurrent themes, social injustice and poverty, the relationship between the two, and their causes and effects.
A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter called Ebenezer Scrooge. Money has been the most important thing in his life and he never paid attention to any other relation. He undergoes a profound experience of redemption a night before Christmas when his dead partner haunts him along with three other spirits one after the other.
Scrooge’s friend Jacob Marley informs him that he may face the same fate like him after death because of his miserliness and contempt for others. However, there is still a chance of Scrooge escaping his fate after three spirits visits him at night. He went to sleep thinking that a good night sleep would help him to get rid of these thoughts which he was not sure to be hallucination. At one o’clock in the night the first spirit, Ghost of Past, appeared and took him on a journey to some of the happiest and saddest experiences in his life.
The second spirit, Ghost of Present, made him see the meager Christmas celebration of the Crachit family and an expected early death for their crippled son. He also learned about his nephew’s strong belief that his uncle would change someday and this worked as a concept for Scrooge to reinvent himself.
The third spirit, Ghost of Christmas, yet to come provided him the knowledge that he can escape his fate and Tiny Tim’s immature death only if he changes himself. All this circumstances made Scrooge change his nature at last and revert to the kind, generous person he was in his youth.
A Christmas Carol has been adapted to theatre, opera, film, radio, and television countless times.
Scrooge’s friend Jacob Marley informs him that he may face the same fate like him after death because of his miserliness and contempt for others. However, there is still a chance of Scrooge escaping his fate after three spirits visits him at night. He went to sleep thinking that a good night sleep would help him to get rid of these thoughts which he was not sure to be hallucination. At one o’clock in the night the first spirit, Ghost of Past, appeared and took him on a journey to some of the happiest and saddest experiences in his life.
The second spirit, Ghost of Present, made him see the meager Christmas celebration of the Crachit family and an expected early death for their crippled son. He also learned about his nephew’s strong belief that his uncle would change someday and this worked as a concept for Scrooge to reinvent himself.
The third spirit, Ghost of Christmas, yet to come provided him the knowledge that he can escape his fate and Tiny Tim’s immature death only if he changes himself. All this circumstances made Scrooge change his nature at last and revert to the kind, generous person he was in his youth.
A Christmas Carol has been adapted to theatre, opera, film, radio, and television countless times.
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