Themes Of A Christmas Carol

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  • A Christmas Carol: Themes
    • Social Injustice
      • "if they would rather die.. they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population"
      • "a poor excuse for picking a mans pocket every 25th pf December"
      • 'It's enough for a man to know his own business, and not to intefere with other people's'
      • Dickens main messages regarding social injustice
        • Do not be like Scrooge: a wealthy person that disregards the needs of the poor.
        • Poor are dependent on the wealthy and therefore you should deprive them of their essential, life necessities
    • Family
      • 'I'll raise your salary and endeavour to assisst you struggling family'
      • 'Scrooge was better than his word [...] He became as good a friend, as good a master, as good a man as the good old City knew'
      • 'A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!" Which all the [Cratchit] family re-echoed. "God bless us, every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all'
      • Dickens messages concerning Family
        • Scrooges depression was due to being apart from his family and not realising the importance.
        • Embrace each other and be more considerate of the people within your family

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