Morality And Redemption In Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, promotes the Christian ideals associated with Christmas and of Victorian England in general. A Christmas Carol may be profoundly established in the essential nineteenth century address for how Christian ethical quality might survive in the face of a progressively utilitarian and free enterprise world brought with respect to the Industrial Revolution (Boan). In the novel, Dickens imparts a Christian message of morality, second chances, and redemption through the events and characters. Throughout the story a hidden Christian message is revealed by the names of the characters. Ebenezer, the protagonist, is actually Even Ha’Ezer, which comes from the Old Testament. Samuel, the judge of Israel, set

There with him are the three holy Ghosts. He then pledges, "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me" (Dickens 117). The three Ghosts played a magnificent role in his transformation from a stone cold heart to a genuine, kind-hearted man. Scrooge is a perfect representation of the redeemed heart, a dead man now alive. God promises “ever-lasting life” and that all begins when Scrooge openly received love and mercy. Even though Scrooge is alive he has just been existing and not truly living. However, he changes his life style when he has been given a second chance. After he received love, mercy, and compassion, he decided to give back to others what was given to him. What a marvelous and joyful coincidence that Scrooge was reborn at Christmas, the same time that God, the founder, was born also. God revealed his truths to biblical Jacob in a dream, just as modern day Jacob proclaims a dream to Ebenezer Scrooge that will alter him from a man who restricts his business "to narrow limits of money-changing hole" to a man who performs his "Father's business"(Luke 2:49). After Scrooge is reborn, as if by a miracle, he understands the world as picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, being a glimpse of the life to come (Karson 142). Tiny Tim helps Scrooge understand the deeper meaning to life and the one to