The most important character among three Christmas ghosts in A Christmas Carol Christmas Carol was an influent novel which was written by Charles Dickens throughout one and half century about a life of Ebenezer Scrooge as a negative, penny-pinching and distasteful man in London. No one had ever wished to work as an employee in his office after his best business partner Jacob Marley died except Bob Cratchit. Nothing in the world would scare Scrooge if it wasn’t about the gold coins. The man, who used to be a heartless person, had changed in just a few nights before Christmas Eve coming. At this point, we must be thankful to three Christmas Ghosts which demonstrated Scrooge life’s faults and gave him a chance to change his bad…
In the poem, “Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?” By Simone Brooklyn, she is trying to convey the concept that our own selves tend to assume what other people are like without genuinely knowing who they really are by asking the public in respect to the main character, is he really who people assume him to be? Thinking about him in a positive way, however, asking, again, the audience if everything we believed about him was true. There’s only a couple of similarities between these two pieces of literature.…
In Frank Darabont's screenplay for the film, "The Shawshank Redemption," Andy Dufresne , the protagonist, is sentenced for two consecutive life terms in Shawshank prison for the murder of his wife and her lover . Andy knows that he has not committed these crimes and was somehow framed for their murders. Andy suffered in prison initially because the other prisoners were thinking that he was a snob and especially because of the frequent attacks and rape from a gang of men called " the sisters". Andy eventually becomes friends with Red , a lifeline to the outside world who can smuggle almost anything into prison for a price. Andy offers financial advice to one of the officers and offers to fill out the necessary paperwork , therefore becoming a valuable financial resource for the guards and the warden gaining him protection from " the sisters" and assigning him as the prison librarian.…
Dr. Seuss’s movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas won a numerous amount of awards such as the Kids’ Choice Award, but what really made people feel like it was fit for all of these awards? With the humor in it and the holiday spirit it expresses, many children fell in love with the Grinch when it first came out, and continue to love it still today. Although many people consider The Grinch to be too childish; it is one of the best Christmas movies. Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, cartoonist, animator, book publisher, and artist. He died on September 21st, 1991.…
A Christmas Carol tells the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge a man who, despite the cheerful spirit of Christmas, turns to solitary and secrecy throughout this period. The selfish attitude Scrooge portrays correlates to the manifestation of four spirits that present themselves as a warning of what shall occur if he continues on the path of self-interest. Self-interest lives within all of us, it gives us the inclination to put ourselves in front of others. However the spirit of Christmas lives to curtail the selfish motives we all shelter. Scrooge becomes cognizant of his ambivalence regarding his selfish intentions and desire to promote charity.…
Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella, A Christmas Carol, was written to spread awareness of the everlasting Christmas Spirit throughout the year. Ebenezer Scrooge, a fictional character, brought to life/fabricated as he represents the social hierarchy troubles that were going on in Victorian England. Scrooge lives his life as a less fortunate pauper and holds money as his golden idol; however, by letting avarice consume him, it almost lead to his ultimate downfall. Fortunately, four specters pay him a visit and allow him to view his entire life until death, in order to save him from living a forgotten and unfulfilled life. The Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, sent by Scrooge’s dead business partner, Jacob Marley, are the unearthly…
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).…
Marxism as a theme in 'Isabella, or, the Pot of Basil ' Isabella or the pot of basil has several interpretations, one of which being a Marxist view. With the actions of the brothers and the 'cartoonish ' way they are described they can be easily seen as tools to suggest the corruptness of capitalism at that time. This therefore could be interpreted as having strong Marxist themes. From the first mention of the brothers they are shown to be cruel and greedy. They are described as being rich from 'ancestral merchandise ' meaning that they inherited their fortune rather than earnt it, which was the typical way capitalism worked during that era.…
The thick feeling of confusion stirred together with overwhelming anxiety and finally topped off with a sprinkle of fear all contribute to test whether one is able to withstand the spice of life strived in adolescence. To Every Thing There Is a Season, by Alistair MacLeod, is a coming-of-age story “seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy, who as an adult remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton” during the Christmas of 1977. Along the lines of the story, the protagonist awakens to a bigger picture of life outside his own small world as he steps his way up from ignorance to knowledge, idealism to realism, and thinking of self to thinking of others. The narrator comes to see himself as a precious…
The Hopeful Proletariat Hope allows one to persevere is a bleak situation. It causes one to believe that there is a reason for suffering and that it will eventually reap reward. However, without hope, one will succumb to any dominating force that occurs, whether is be a person or situation.…
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is a beloved tale that people of all ages have loved for its emotional and moral appeal. It is a story focusing on the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy and cold-hearted money-lender, who is visited by four ghostly apparitions who convince him together to change his merciless ways. At the beginning of this tale, Scrooge does not recognize the effects of his greed, so the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take it upon themselves to show him how much his greed can hurt the people around him. Needless to say, greed is the central theme of Dickens’ beloved novella, and it is revealed by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, in order to change Scrooge’s curmudgeonly ways. The very…
Marxist criticism The 2011 motion picture, In Time, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, strongly conveys elements of Marx’s social theory. The film is about a world in which currency equals years a person has to live after 25. The people there either die when their time runs out or find a way to earn more time, just like what the elites or the bourgeoisie in Marxist context did.…
Marxist Theory Applied to Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck The struggle between socio-economical classes is what pushes the future forward. Classism proves that discrimination between the oppressed and the oppressing causes division of people. Karl Marx developed a theory that explained these situations, the Marxist theory.…
My story was Betty’s Bright Idea. The author of this story was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 as the daughter of a Congregationalist Minister, which influenced her religious views. Stowe also had seven brothers, and four sisters. One of her sisters, Catharine Beecher, was an author and school teacher.…
Marxism in The Hunger Games If there is any perfect representation of Marxism in film it is in The Hunger Games. For this case study, I will be focusing on the first movie of the trilogy. This paper will overview the way Marxism is shown in The Hunger Games using a few examples from the movie. In this paper, I argue that The Hunger Games’ plot line has Marxism theories extremely exposed and almost blatantly exposed. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels developed Marxism in the early 1900s.…