+1 862 207 3288 Christmas Carol Prompt
Charles Dickens’ celebrated Christmas Carol explores the plight of the poor child and the
miseries associated with economic, social, and political injustices. Develop an argument
around some of the issues Dickens raises, as each relates to his idealized London: moral,
Christian, charitable, and altruistic. How does Dickens critique the London of his time and
where does he hint at his idealized London? How do social skills, economics, and morality
interact in the novella? What is the role of death in the narrative and how does the motif of
light/darkness operate? What of the supernatural/fantastical as juxtaposed with the natural or
normative world—how do these overlapping realms function and how does that overlap
advance the novella’s moral project? What is the role of ghosting in the novella, and why do
ghosts haunt the normative world, especially as seen through Scrooge’s life?
