Analysis of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Analysis of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol is a novel written by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

during the Victorian age, an era that took its name from Queen

Victoria, England titular ruler from 1819-1901. Under Queen Victoria’s

rule, London reigned the worlds dominate city country and the

country’s incomparable center of commerce, culture and government. At

this time London’s industrial age contributed to a large share of the

manpower and capital that brought the country to a position of world

economic dominance.

However there was a downside to the industrial age, industrialization

had altered the physical, social and cultural landscapes of Great

Britain. The rise of the factory system had drawn rural peasants to

the great urban centers in numbers, incomparable in history, creating

dangerous conditions of overcrowding and feeding, developing modern

problems of social displacement, crime and poverty. Within London the

River Thames was filled with sewage and industrial waste. The air was

contaminated with soot and pollution which emptied from residential

and industrial chimneys. Until the second half of the 19th century

London residents were still drinking water from the very same portions

of the Thames that the open sewers were discharging into. Inside the

factories, the place of economic production, self-interested owners

paid poverty level wages for fourteen hour days and employed young

children in dangerous, even lethal, work environments. Child labor

became a very big problem. Children of all ages worked in factories

(mills), mines, picking fruit and preparing sea-food. The children not

only suffered because of lack of education, they also suffered from

injuries caused by t...

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...ty sharing happiness and joy. The next day

he got in early catching his clerk coming in late. Bob thought he was

going to get fired; instead Scrooge raised his salary and promised to

help his struggling family. From this it shows Scrooge was able to

redeem himself in every possible way in contrast to the past. From

there on Scrooge kept Christmas in his heart and was a changed man.

In conclusion the moral in which Dickens is trying to elicit in his

readers is in my opinion that ‘It is never too late to change your

ways. You should be kind to yourself and others. Sharing Christian

values in every possible way’. Dickens shows the differences in

society between the rich and the poor and how we should help others to

benefit all. Especially highlighting the views and opinions of the

poor and how they feel because many people aren’t aware of these

factors.