Inspiration

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Nutshell Summary

Character Analysis

- The Ghost of Christmas Past
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- Fezziweg
- Belle
- The Ghost of Christmas Present
- Jacob Marley
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
- The Ghost of Christmas Past
- Tiny Tim
- Fred
- The portly gentlemen
- Bob Cratchit
- Fran

Quote Bank

- Greed and generosity
- Christmas
- Time: past, present, and future
- Isolation
- Social inequity: Victorian society
- Compassion and forgiveness
- Family

Background Information

- Charles Dickens
- Why did Dickens write A Christmas Carol?
- Victorian Era
- Christianity
- Inspiration

In many ways, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is influenced significantly by Dante Alighieri’s seminal narrative poem, La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), formally published in 1472.

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