How Does Scrooge Present The Poor In A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol: Poor and Greediness in Victorian Society In most fictional stories, the main character is happy and adored by others. This does not happen in A Christmas Carol. Scrooge, the main character, is a harsh man who scorns Christmas and is not kind. The ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future arrive to remind him of his rude attitude toward people in general. Scrooge then changes himself by donating to charity and stops being stingy with his wealth. In A Christmas Carol, Dickens uses Scrooge to critique treatment of the poor and greediness in Victorian society. He also offers the reform of charity as a solution to these problems. Throughout A Christmas Carol, Victorian society looked down upon the poor. The poor people were treated with disrespect and indignity. For example, Scrooge says; “Are there no prisons and Union workhouses? Are they still in operation?” (Dickens 16). He is asking if there are any prisons so the poor can have somewhere to stay instead of living on the street. Scrooge thought that they should go to prison

There are many examples of greed in this novel. Precisely this quote by his fiance, Belle: “Another idol has displaced me...a golden one… I release you. With a full heart, for the love of him you once were” (Dickens 37-38). Scrooge has lost his fiance because of his obsession with money. Belle believes that Scrooge cares for his money more than her. Not only was Ebenezer greedy, but he was also a cheapskate. “Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so much smaller that it looked like one coal” (Dickens 13). Ebenezer is so obsessed with keeping all of his money that he is unwilling to spend any of it to keep him and his clerk warm. Scrooge has enough money to pay his clerk a fair wage, but he does not. After all, the greed of the rich was very common in Victorian