Listen: Telling spooky tales at Christmastime is a very old tradition.It’s believed that parts of the novel were inspired by Dickens’s own life: as a 12-year-old, around the time that his father was in debtors’ prison, he’d been forced into work, while Tiny Tim is thought to have been based on Dickens’s own nephew – who did not survive childhood. The new Scrooge is described as a good man who embodies the true spirit of Christmas. He gives money to charity, spends Christmas with his family, sends a turkey to the Cratchit family and gives Bob a pay rise. Horrified at seeing his own, unmourned death, and the fates of those around him due to his carelessness, Scrooge eventually repents. I have a feeling that next year will be something along the lines of The Wire, since Jughead told Kevin it wasn’t The Wire, and a Dickensian story of social injustice, classism, poverty vs wealth, crime, punishment, villainy, and cruel revenge. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) This year was all about a film noir detective story and an Edgar Allen Poe Gothic Horror Romance. Still, it’s lovely to see them in a different phase of their lives. Musical adaptations of Dickens have helped to. While each of them have an important role in the Dickens story they’re a part of, this is an ensemble piece. Jacob Marley's ghost, rattling chains and padlocks, appears to the miser Scrooge in a scene from 'A Christmas Carol'. Indeed, the musicality of this story, and of Dickens in general, has been explored numerous times.
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