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Dickens/Christmas Carol
Dickens Early life
School student 9 yo
3 years later
Work (father's debts)
Journalist (parliamentary reporter)
Novelist (US appreciated)
1812-1842
1842-43
Tough time
Plagiarised versions (US)
Last two novels (flop)
Christmas Carol
Success
Born Christian festivity
Christmas Carol
Scrooge (Rich capitalistic)
Refuse Nephew's invite
Reject to donate to the poor
Meet 4 spirit
Jacob Marley (dead business partner)
Spirit of Christmas past
Spirit of Christmas present
Spirit of Christmas Yet to come
Main Themes:
Richness and poverty
Kindness/generosity
death and oblivion
change
Then become kindness and generosity
Victorian city
Agriculture revolution 17th
New tools
Increase productivity
18th/19th industrial revolution
Britain 1st industrialised nation
Problem
Health condition (precarious)
Poverty (Workhouse)
Criminality
First extract: the two collectors
Scrooge vs men of charity
No prision? no workhouse?
Provokating
No donation
Poor lazy no deserve attention
Theory of surplus population
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Poor no poor anymore
Out job
Children-friendly scene
Second extract: Ignorance and Want
Scrooge & Spirit of Christmas Present
No prision? no worker?
Two children
Ignorance (Boy)
Want (Girl)
Ignorance= greatest evil=education
Disney's Christmas Carol (2009)
Boy criminal
girl prostitute
Panopticon
Jeremy Bentham
utilitarianism
What is useful is good
Creator
Ideal prision
Control Tower (Watchmen
Shutters
Cells (Prisioner)
Watchmen of ourselves
Good citizens
Visual asymmetry
economy
No watcher needed