Discuss the Enjoyment and Appeal of a Christmas Carol

Fred is Scrooges nephew and only living relation. I have chosen him in answer to question two as he reminds me of a young Scrooge when he was working for Mr. Fezzywig. When he was young, Scrooge was poor and had Belle as a girlfriend. Fred is what Scrooge would have been if he hadn’t become rich and ended his relationship with Belle. Also Fred has so much Christmas spirit. “I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!”

In the novella there are staves or instalments (staves are verses of songs or carols.) So he sutures his stories by writing in instalments.  At the end of each chapter the reader is left wondering what will happen in the next, so has to continue reading.

Dickens uses repetition to engage his audience “Bah! Humbug!” he uses this line a lot in the play. By using the ghosts he is scaring the audience because in Victorian times they believed in ghosts and witches. At the same time he teaches them a lesson, the same lesson he is teaching Scrooge. This is not to be greedy, selfish and uncaring. The lesson is to be kind-hearted, thoughtful and charitable. In Victorian times ‘a Christmas carol’ was produced theatre and only rich people could afford to go and see the play, not unlike today where theatre tickets are very expensive.

I think Dickens wrote the novella to convey the message that that life should not be taken for granted.  We should  appreciate what we have and love our family and our relatives. I think his message is relevant to modern society because people have not changed at all, and people are just as reluctant to give away their money away - just as Scrooge was.