Analysis of A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensA Christmas Carol is a novel written by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)during the Victorian age, an era that took its name from QueenVictoria, England titular ruler from 1819-1901. Under Queen Victoria’srule, London reigned the worlds dominate city country and thecountry’s incomparable center of commerce, culture and government. Atthis time London’s industrial age contributed to a large share of themanpower and capital that brought the country to a position of worldeconomic dominance.
However there was a downside to the industrial age, industrializationhad altered the physical, social and cultural landscapes of GreatBritain. The rise of the factory system had drawn rural peasants tothe great urban centers in numbers, incomparable in history, creatingdangerous conditions of overcrowding and feeding, developing modernproblems of social displacement, crime and poverty. Within London theRiver Thames was filled with sewage and industrial waste. The air wascontaminated with soot and pollution which emptied from residentialand industrial chimneys. Until the second half of the 19th centuryLondon residents were still drinking water from the very same portionsof the Thames that the open sewers were discharging into. Inside thefactories, the place of economic production, self-interested ownerspaid poverty level wages for fourteen hour days and employed youngchildren in dangerous, even lethal, work environments. Child laborbecame a very big problem. Children of all ages worked in factories(mills), mines, picking fruit and preparing sea-food. The children notonly suffered because of lack of education, they also suffered frominjuries caused by t…
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…ty sharing happiness and joy. The next dayhe got in early catching his clerk coming in late. Bob thought he wasgoing to get fired; instead Scrooge raised his salary and promised tohelp his struggling family. From this it shows Scrooge was able toredeem himself in every possible way in contrast to the past. Fromthere on Scrooge kept Christmas in his heart and was a changed man.
In conclusion the moral in which Dickens is trying to elicit in hisreaders is in my opinion that ‘It is never too late to change yourways. You should be kind to yourself and others. Sharing Christianvalues in every possible way’. Dickens shows the differences insociety between the rich and the poor and how we should help others tobenefit all. Especially highlighting the views and opinions of thepoor and how they feel because many people aren’t aware of thesefactors.
