Examples Of Allegory In A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens in his work, "A Christmas Carol" discusses about the true meaning of giving, receiving and sharing. The reason is that the narrator seems to be interested in telling the story since rich people did not appreciate poor people especially during the industrial Revolution whereby the gap was widened for both rich and poor people in which poor people were totally forgotten. After watching the Christmas Carol I understand that it is an allegory which delivers messages concerning the way people were being treated in the time of Victorian and how unfair treatment and class separation is applied today. It seems that Dickens had a purpose to deliver a message to the public that wealthy aims on changing their ways for betterment of the entire society. Also, I understand that a Christmas Carol uses many examples of verbal humor whereby the character wanted the audience to …show more content…
The reason is because Dickens uses speech in order to indicate how and what people feel or even think. The speech is well presented in dramatic way. The message is delivered in a well written prose thus enlightening aristocratic members of the contemporary society with allegory. Dickens argue that greed, selfishness among other actions tends to extinguish the actual spirit of the Christmas. I liked the story because of its irony. The fact is that there are situations in which spirits does not inform Scrooge the reason why he is wrong but gives him an opportunity to find on his own. The past ghost seems to be ironic whereby the character named Fezziwing does something special and his actions leads to Scrooge's praise to his generosity. The present ghost claims that Scrooge is able to see why they are all wrong but both the present ghost and Marley do not inform Scrooge the reason he is wrong. The fact is that Marley's chains indicates both money and priorities which Marley valued in his entire