The Victorian Life in the Novel A Christmas Carol
There are many pictures that 'A Christmas Carol' creates and in this
essay I will show you all of them. This novella explores the many
diverse types of life in the harsh Victorian era. From the Rich cruel
citizens to the poor of poor like the Cratchit family.
One of the pictures portrayed in the novella is the fact that many
rich upper class gentlemen were not actually gentle men; in fact they
could be quite the opposite. He portrays the typically attitudes of
these upper class people in the Victorian era by creating Ebenezer
Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge is the focus point of this book because
Charles Dickens was tried to get across the fact that Victorian upper
class gentlemen were not nice to each other and did not help the
community enough, and only thought of themselves. This was exactly
what Ebenezer Scrooge was all of those characteristics and harsher. At
the start of the novella we encounter a description of Scrooge before
he encounters the spirits. In the book it even calls him a 'sinner'.
Scrooge is very cruel and self-centred, we see this in the book when
Bob Cratchit has to make a fire to warm himself with only on block of
charcoal which does not make that much of a difference when it is
below 0`C, but as Scrooge was so self centred and was so mad about
money he did not think that Bob Cratchit was cold all he could think
of was about how much money Bob was wasting on that one piece of coal.
Another Example of how Ebenezer Scrooge was thoughtless of how other
people felt was when he had a conversation with two portly gentlemen
about provisions for the poor and destitute, D...
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working in a factory nor washing windows.
The novella also pictures Victorian life as very traditional, for
example in the Victorian days family gatherings were very important
and an example of this was the disappointment of Bob Cratchit when
Martha joked that Belinda Cratchit could not attend the Christmas
lunch. The games they played back then were also very basic and did
not require many things. For example at Fred's house me see that their
game that they play was 'Blind Man's Bluff' , all you needed for this
game was people, a piece of clothe and the lights dimmed.
In Conclusion I think that Charles Dickens had achieved his aim of
making people more aware of the fact that everyone needs to nice to
people and everyone in turn becomes happier therefore making it a
happier place to live.
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small its as if it only has one coal. Being so cheap and not wanting
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