Dickens' The Christmas Carol And 19th –Century British Society
Dickens' The Christmas Carol and 19th –century British society
Dickens' The Christmas Carol is known as a cute exaltation of the Christmas ‘spirit' of charity and love for our fellow man. Almost everyone growing up as a kid has read or seen some kind of version of The Christmas Carol during the holidays in the month of December. It is a story about a tightfisted lonely man known as Scrooge who learns to give and receive love which I think we would all agree is more than appropriate for the season. But Dickens' story has more meaning and as you get deeper into the story you learn that there is a dark reflection on a changing society
The economic theory embedded in The Christmas Carol by Dickens' is one of hardships and poor times like the British society in the 19th century. Life was hard in Dickens' England. The Poor Laws relegated debtors and the jobless to prisons or workhouses where families were separated. They were fed harsh diets......
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