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Themes in Christmas Carol - Coggle Diagram
Themes in Christmas Carol
Scrooge displays Redemption in Stave 5
Poverty - Cratchits
'Many thousands are in want of common necessities' - told by the charity collectors - Dickens gives us a brief glimpse that poverty is even deeper into society than the Cratchits
'brave in ribbons' - symbol of her desperation - trying to make her dress appear new and respectable
The Christmas Spirit - Stave 2
Dickens chose Christmas as traditionally a time for giving and used the season to remind people of Christian teaching re caring for others and helping poor
Stave 3
Cratchits' family Christmas
Fred's wealthy family at Christmas - laughter and plenty
End of the year - a year of change
Family - Stave 2
Dickens balances Scrooge's isolation with vibrant vignettes that hshow us the positive benefits of a close and loving family life
Supernatural - the four ghosts
Dickens uses the supernatural to manipulate time and allow Scrooge to travel to his past, present and future - 'Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!'
Social Injustice - Stave 2
Greed - Marley and Scrooge
Love of money over family and people
Doesn't bring happiness - helping others
Class
No upper-class in novel
working-class/poor - manual labour - Bob has level of education to work in office so respectable working-class or lower-middle
Wealth - Scrooge
Change
Isolation
'a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire' - shows that Scrooge find companionship in stories but as an adult he focuses on making money at the expense of personal relationships
When Scrooge becomes a second father to Tiny Tim, it means Scrooge gets some of the love and support he has been missing or refusing
Contrast between rich and poor