A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - So you Haven't Read

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  @extrahistory · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @itsy-bitsyspider4172 · 4 years ago

  Nothing brings Christmass mood like thousands tormented souls screaming in agony across night sky.

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  @Megaboss_Bor · 4 years ago

  I now realize the Muppets rendition of A Christmas Carol is very accurate, and I actually know the whole thing

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  @ThePa1riot · 4 years ago (edited)

  One thing about Christmas Carol that I think gets misunderstood is that people think Scrooge is greedy. Don’t get me wrong, his sweetheart left him because he came to see gaining wealth as the only pursuit and he absolutely measures everything transactionally but he truly is as is often described “miserly.”<br><br>There’s no better showcase of this than when he goes home. Sure, he has a big house but it’s empty, cold, and barely lit. It’s more like a crypt than a home. He eats porridge in his room. He almost doesn’t live any better than the Cratchits even if he could.<br><br>This, to me, reveals far more about his character than just casting him like the worst aspects of Scrooge McDuck, swimming in mountains of gold and luxuries. Scrooge is a man who has left any love in his heart behind. He’s miserable and he thinks any kind of happiness or mirth is either a distraction or a self-imposed delusion.<br><br>It’s why, again, to me, him going to Fred’s party is the moment his redemption is complete. Because giving alms and everything were true acts of charity but now he had to lay himself at the mercy of his only relative and the only connection he had left to his beloved sister, who he’s treated like crap for years.<br><br>But Fred never stopped loving him. Scrooge just needed to accept he could still be loved.

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  @empirical.growth · 4 years ago

  Before this moment I didn’t think I needed Eminem drawn in the extra credits style but I really did and I thank the team for that so much 🤣

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  @Welshman2008 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Apparently after Dickens gave a reading of a Christmas Carol in the States &nbsp;years later a factory owner closed his factory on Christmas Day and gave his workers a turkey 🦃 each.

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  @darreljones8645 · 4 years ago

  I actually HAVE read the book, and here&apos;s proof: One scene, which always gets left out of adaptations, had Scrooge finishing off the festivities with the Ghost of Christmas Present at a Twelfth Night party.

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  @IliyaMoroumetz · 4 years ago

  You forgot the most important part about Ignorance and Want. The Ghost warns Scrooge to beware more of Ignorance, than Want. Because ignorance, left unchecked, leads to doom. <br><br>It was especially poignant when you think of how much suffering (or doom) results because of ignorance, willful or not.

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  @bradb9635 · 4 years ago

  I literally laughed out loud when Zoey was the “terrifying” Christmas ghost.

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  @Ignorance-is-a-tool · 4 years ago (edited)

  &quot;He&apos;s weak and palms sweaty&quot;, &quot;Snap back to reality&quot; as well as an animated eminem, three eminem referances I didn&apos;t know I needed.

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  @BLasherman · 4 years ago

  I always like that they say &quot;Tiny Tim, who did not die...&quot; in the story<br><br>Tim has become immortal?

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  @GabyGibson · 4 years ago

  &quot;If I had my way, every fool who goes about with a Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.&quot;

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