Topic Sentences

Wealth and Poverty: Dickens uses the Ghost of Christmas Present to highlight the stark contrast between wealth and poverty in Victorian society.

Generosity and Compassion: Dickens uses the Ghost of Christmas Present to emphasise the importance of generosity and compassion during the Christmas season.

Consequences of Actions: Dickens uses the Ghost of Christmas Present to reveal the consequences of Scrooge's actions on those around him, particularly the Cratchit family.

Transformation and Redemption: Dickens uses the Ghost of Christmas Present to illustrate the transformative power of kindness and the potential for personal redemption.

Key Quotations

Wealth and Poverty:

"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree..."
"There are some upon this earth of yours... who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived."

Generosity and Compassion:

"To a poor one most. Because it needs it most."
"If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

Consequences of Actions:

"It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child."
"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"

Transformation and Redemption:

"Spirit," said Scrooge submissively, "conduct me where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now. To-night, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it."
"I see a vacant seat," replied the Ghost, "in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved."

A Christmas Carol

The Ghost of Christmas Present