It seems to me like the message is that one should live for the better of mankind. However, the story isnt about scrooge learning that he was wrong and relizing that he should help people. Its more about scrooge being scared into changing. I dont know if thats the right message either. Shouldnt the message be about a man who relizes that the suffering he has caused isnt worth the money he has made. And not about man who changes because hes afraid of being bound by the chains of his own sins after he dies. Give me some thoughts.
2006-12-03 13:37:46 · 6 answers · asked by p_rob22 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Interesting, and yet thats my point. If the spirtits hadn't scared him he wouldnt have changed. He would seen what he did and relizing that there was nothing he could do, he would have pushed it aside. Even after he sees his fiancee that he hurt his response is that the spirit shouldnt show him anymore. He doesnt wish to make immense, he wishes to forget it. Scrooge only repents in the end when the ghost of future shows him his gravestone.
2006-12-03 14:46:40 · update #1
None of those.
Dickens grew to hate that story because no one got the message he wanted to send. Everyone loved the redemption angle and the "help your fellow man" angle, but that wasn't Dickens' true message.
Dickens wanted to change the fundamental nature of how poverty and debt was handled in Britain. He wanted the people to stop the work houses and debtors' prisons, but that never happened. If you entered one of those institutions, it was essentially a death sentence.
That was his true message, but he wrote such a compelling subject in Scrooge, that his focus was lost. Debtors' prisons and work houses eventually ended,but no one credits Dickens' story.
2006-12-03 13:52:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Scrooge was really scared into changing. I think he really did learn that the suffering he had caused was not worthwhile. Think of his dismay over having the way he lost his fiancee rehashed- he knew that he should not have hurt her the way he did. And over finding out about the suffering he was causing in Bob Crachitt's family- he was really remorseful about that, and made amends later. I think the fear was just to get his attention, because if he wasn't afraid he would not have listened to the spirits, and so would never have learned his lesson.
2006-12-03 22:02:42 · answer #2 · answered by shodieanna 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well i think the message is after seeing all the joy he used to have and then finally seeing what is going to happen in the future if he doesnt change then his hearts softens for tiny tim mostly and cratchit so he is changing his ways so that no one else has to suffer because if his hatred towards christmas and marleys death
2006-12-03 21:45:15 · answer #3 · answered by samcake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of life's lessons are learned by being scared of the consequences of ones wrong doings....
2006-12-03 22:51:49 · answer #4 · answered by TRUE GRIT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes stories have more than one moral. This one included everything you mentioned and probably many more.
2006-12-03 21:41:45 · answer #5 · answered by Adriana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-03 21:51:04 · answer #6 · answered by ejb g 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋