In the book A Christmas Carol, the characters of the story symbolize the many realisms of the British Industrial Revolution henceforth making the story an allegory. For example, Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge’s clerk, incarnates the poor. He was a hardworking man being the epitome of the hardworking and uncomplaining working class. Tiny Tim, Bob’s son, symbolized hope. However, Ebenezer Scrooge is the quintessence of all things evil of the Industrial Revolution as he embodied the “ignorance owners and managers of big companies had towards their employees’ well-being” and how those owners adjudicated the poor, instead of assisting them, since they were “big time” and made lots of capital (Johnson).
We begin to become aware of Scrooge’s ignorant attitude in A Christmas Carol when Dickens asserts in Stave 1, “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he; no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty” (pg.12). Dickens’ alluded to this, in his book, …show more content…
He starts to see how some families “lived in horrible conditions” (The Industrial Revolution and the Changing Face of Britain). Notably, Scrooge starts to feel repentance towards his actions once he sees Tiny Tim. In the novel, Tiny Tim is ill, showing one of the many problems of the poor, ordinary people: “poverty, poor housing, ill health, a horrifying level of child mortality, hunger, and long hours of grinding labor” (Characteristics of Victorian Britain). In spite of this, Tiny Tim still symbolized the poor people, who had hope and were grateful for what they had. We see an instance of this in Stave 3 of the book when Tiny Tim proposed in the toast, “God bless every one of us!” (pg.
We begin to become aware of Scrooge’s ignorant attitude in A Christmas Carol when Dickens asserts in Stave 1, “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he; no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty” (pg.12). Dickens’ alluded to this, in his book, …show more content…
He starts to see how some families “lived in horrible conditions” (The Industrial Revolution and the Changing Face of Britain). Notably, Scrooge starts to feel repentance towards his actions once he sees Tiny Tim. In the novel, Tiny Tim is ill, showing one of the many problems of the poor, ordinary people: “poverty, poor housing, ill health, a horrifying level of child mortality, hunger, and long hours of grinding labor” (Characteristics of Victorian Britain). In spite of this, Tiny Tim still symbolized the poor people, who had hope and were grateful for what they had. We see an instance of this in Stave 3 of the book when Tiny Tim proposed in the toast, “God bless every one of us!” (pg.