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A Christmas Carol Summary |
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Synopsis
In the story, 4 ghosts visit the miserly businessman Ebneezer Scrooge on Eve. The apparition of Scrooge's business partner Marley, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and As Yet to come guide Scrooge along his loveless present and bleak future.
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The vision of his own headstone and the fact that no one will mourn his death force Scrooge to see the error of his "Bah! Humbug!" attitude toward both life and Christmas.
The primary recipients of Scrooge's moral rebirth are his poor clerk Bob Cratchit and his family, especially the crippled boy Tiny Tim. Scrooge awakens from his illusions and delivers a turkey to the Cratchit household, gives Tim a raise and reconciles with his nephew.
Commentary
The novella exemlpifies Dickens's vigorous opposition to those Victorian social reformers who believed like Scrooge that charity encouraged idleness and the poor should be left to die. A proposed alternative to the stern and grim puritanical values of the Victorian age.
The author, in the 1843 Preface, writes:
I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
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Last Updated :-15 December, 2011
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