Dickens's Christmas Carol : Role of Children

The Role of Children in Dicken’s Christmas Carol Children are common figures used in literature to portray purity, wholesomeness, and innocence. Authors also use other child figures, those less innocent, yet in most cases violent figures are rarely the latter form. It is to extract the innocence and purity that Dicken’s authors two of four main characters as children. Main characters, Ebeneezer Scrooge and his employee Bob Cratchit are accompanied by child roles, …

…talking about him until the ghost takes him to the cemetery when Scrooge sees his own gravestone. From this point on Scrooge begs the ghost to let him change his lifestyle and try to change it for the better. ning of Christmas. Scrooge is shown the contrasting feelings about a child of happiness and hope and an angry stingy old man. It is this conclusion which acts as a catalyst for his change. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**