A Christmas Carol December 7, 2006

'A Christmas Carol' is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one evening. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has spent his life concentrating on the accumulation of wealth and little else. He holds anything other than wealth in contempt including friendship, love and the Christmas season. The story deals extensively with two of Dickens' recurring themes, social injustice and poverty.