Scrooge's Redemption In Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

The moral of A Christmas Carol is that there is always time to make amends and turn your life around. A Christmas Carol serves as an important illustration of a redemptive tale. The main theme from A Christmas Carol is that redemption requires admitting your wrong doing and making amends by changing your behavior moving forward. Three spirits appear to Scrooge and help him understand the consequences of his behavior for both himself and others, as well as how it will influence him going forward. )Scrooge is initially characterized as being cold-hearted and avaricious. Scrooge is described as“ a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, was Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” (Dickens, 1) At first, he is portrayed and seen as a greedy and cold hearted man who

The ghost of Christmas past revealed to him why his ex-fiance had broken up with him: greed and materialism had made him blind. Scrooge was shown by the ghost of Christmas Present how his employee Bob Cratchit and his family were struggling and living in poverty as a result of the poor wages Scrooge gave them. “They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker’s’’ (Dickens,8) The Cratchit family was very poor, and didn’t have money for new clothes nor shoes due to the low pay that scrooge payed Bob. Scrooge was then revealed by the Ghost of Christmas Future how Bob's son, will die since Bob will not be able to pay for his medical expenses because of the meager