An Objectivists View on a Charles Dickens´Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol is considered by many to be a classic for all the ages, if an objectivist point of view is used to analyse the social and political undertones of the story they will agree with most of it, if not all of it. One of the major parts that an objectivist would agree with in A Christmas Carol is how scrooge thinks of and how he treats the poor and infirm. Scrooge further develops his objectivist ideology by being completely self-interested in both his personal and professional life. After Scrooge is visited by the three apparitions he is radically changed from a self-interested, objectivist, to a positive and uplifting altruist. In Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, an objectivist would agree with Scrooge’s original ideology but would struggle with Scrooges outward manifestation at the end of the story.
Scrooge generally disregards or outright denies the needs and welfare of the less fortunate and the challenged, which fits in perfectly with an objectivists view on the less fortunate. An objectivist view on the poor is that, “Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.”(Ayn Rand). What this means is that because the poor cannot provide for themselves and their families they are not men at all and why should the rest of the population help them if they cannot help themselves. This is the same ideology Scrooge subscribes to and is best shown when two men appear at Scrooge’s counting house and ask him if he can, “make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries… [Scrooge has] help[ed] to support the establishments I have menti...

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Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol is considered by many to be a classic for all the ages, if an objectivist point of view is used to analyse the social and political undertones of the story they will agree with most of it, if not all of it. One of the major parts that an objectivist would agree with in A Christmas Carol is how scrooge thinks of and how he treats the poor and infirm. Scrooge further develops his objectivist ideology by being completely self-interested in both his personal and professional life. After Scrooge is visited by the three apparitions he is radically changed from a self-interested, objectivist, to a positive and uplifting altruist. In Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, an objectivist would agree with Scrooge’s original ideology but would struggle with Scrooges outward manifestation at the end of the story.