Dickens: The man who invented Christmas
From October to November 1843, Dickens spent six weeks writing the novel A Christmas Carol , subtitled " A Ghost Story for Christmas ," which was reviewed on December 19. Pullman and Hall published the first edition, just in time for Christmas.
A heartwarming and healing Christmas ghost story of repentance and love: Ebeneezer Scrooge, a ruthless miser , meets his late partner Jacob Marley on Christmas Eve (Jacob Marley) ghosts, past spirits, present spirits, and future spirits, they (they?) let Scrooge see how deeply his past actions hurt others. From the visit of the last soul, Scrooge saw his own grave and suddenly realized how empty his life was for money. (Involving the plot of the movie to be recommended, no more details will be disclosed)
"A Christmas Carol" made the word "Scrooge" synonymous with "Scrooge", and Scrooge's catchphrase "Bah, humbug! (Bah, humbug)" has also become a British mantra when expressing anger and dissatisfaction.
This Christmas ghost story has become Dickens' most famous short story - since its publication in 1843, it has been adapted into stage, radio, film and television every year. It is also the most filmed work and has been adapted to the screen 27 times so far .
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Actually, A Christmas Carol wasn't the first Christmas story Dickens wrote, or even the first Christmas ghost story he wrote. Before that, he wrote The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton , starring miser Gabriel Grub , the first book in Dickens The man is also featured in the side stories of the novel The Pickwick Papers . From 1843 to 1848, he published a holiday-related novella almost every Christmas.
Dickens single-handedly created the tradition of Christmas Eve ghost stories and the idea of Christmas that pervades to this day: a day of family reunion, warm, loving, forgiving, and accompanied by mistletoe (also known as "kissing"). "kissing boughs" and holly branches; people go to church, do charity; and of course Christmas foods like turkey, Christmas pudding (also "plum pudding"), and mince tarts; "Merry Christmas" wishes by This became popular. Dickens himself is credited with "inventing Christmas".
However, many of the traditional Christmas elements considered today were not part of the Christmas day at the time: he did not mention Santa Claus and presents, Christmas carols, greeting cards, stockings or crackers, and no Christmas tree (the Christmas tree was introduced in The London News in 1848). It only became popular after the Illustrated reported on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's Christmas tree).
When realistic critical spirit meets romanticism
Fundamentally, Dickens has no position. Whoever is weak or persecuted, he will give sympathy and support - in "A Tale of Two Cities", when the peasants are oppressed, he stands with the peasants; and when the nobles are oppressed by the peasants, He turned to sympathy for the aristocracy... The reason why he was popular in his time, and in ours, was chiefly his ability to express, in a comic, simple and therefore memorable form, the natural Decent and ceremonial conduct. It is important from this point of view that very different and various characters can be described as 'ordinary people'. "- George Orwell
Gens made up 928 characters in his life. With a "sympathetic heart", he is willing to stand with all the humble, weak and oppressed people at the bottom, and use ink pen to impose the era and social changes on the people. The pain of personal life is portrayed vividly, as if to penetrate into every fold of life.
Not only was he a master of narrative, he was one of the first nineteenth-century writers to expose social injustice to middle-class readers with a human touch. Through strong characters and compelling plots, Dickens crafted thought-provoking characters for the Victorian underclass, instilling hope in poverty and wringing humor out of despair.
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.” —Charles Dickens
“I now know enough about the world to hardly be able to be surprised at anything.” —Charles Dickens
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