The story A Christmas Carol has a very important theme that relates to real life. The author Charles Dickens was able to relate his theme in the play to a real world problem. One of the main themes of this play is the fact that kids and the not wealthy are taken advantage of. This caused the reader to be able to realize their own wrong doings in their life and try their best to hopefully pursue to fix them. In a time of the Factory Movement in U.S. History, this was a story that really opened the readers’ eyes to a huge problem facing society during these times (Bloom N.P.). A Christmas Carol is a play that puts into light the conditions of the lower class compared to the upper class in this time period, Christmas in general and the effect
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In this play, money was a main attribute that many people longed to have. The different social classes formed many stereotypes to the other classes and tended to categorize people into a stereotype that fit their social class (Watkin N.P.). It seemed like the whole world revolved around money for some people and what was theirs was theirs and they weren’t giving it up. This was shown by Scrooge earlier in the play before he underwent his change of heart to occur in later acts of the play. Scrooge in the play brought awareness to the needs of many people as the needy were often mentioned to portray the theme of the play. Dickens believed this to be an important aspect to show to the reader (Cavalieri N.P.). Though this story tends to affiliate itself with selfishness and self-righteousness, the main goal is to grasp the reader to show them the big picture of the issues in the world in this time period that the play was written (Davis N.P. ). Dickens believed people as a whole are much more significant than when we are alone which meant we needed to start acting as a team and not just the idea of every man for themselves (Cavalieri N.P. ). Dickens in this play, attempted to show that someone can be happy without money and in this sense, he encouraged people to be less selfish and more selfless (Bloom N.P.). This is a very important topic through the entirety of the
In this play, money was a main attribute that many people longed to have. The different social classes formed many stereotypes to the other classes and tended to categorize people into a stereotype that fit their social class (Watkin N.P.). It seemed like the whole world revolved around money for some people and what was theirs was theirs and they weren’t giving it up. This was shown by Scrooge earlier in the play before he underwent his change of heart to occur in later acts of the play. Scrooge in the play brought awareness to the needs of many people as the needy were often mentioned to portray the theme of the play. Dickens believed this to be an important aspect to show to the reader (Cavalieri N.P.). Though this story tends to affiliate itself with selfishness and self-righteousness, the main goal is to grasp the reader to show them the big picture of the issues in the world in this time period that the play was written (Davis N.P. ). Dickens believed people as a whole are much more significant than when we are alone which meant we needed to start acting as a team and not just the idea of every man for themselves (Cavalieri N.P. ). Dickens in this play, attempted to show that someone can be happy without money and in this sense, he encouraged people to be less selfish and more selfless (Bloom N.P.). This is a very important topic through the entirety of the