Charles Dickens and Time Essay examples

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Christmas Carroll

What different Views of Christmas are presented in Stave 1 of Dickens ‘A Christmas Carroll’?

(Fred’s View) He believes that Christmas is a time for forgiving, charitable, king and pleasant time to spend time with family and friends and quote that backs up this statement is presented below.
“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys”. (Scrooge’s View) Scrooge believes Christmas is a time for making a large profit and not a holiday but a big business opportunity for him to make a big profit. Quote from Scrooge
“What is Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will," said Scrooge
(Bob Cratchit’s View) A time when you can spend with your family and give presents and also spend time with friends and your neighbourhood and where he