Scrooge's Redemption In Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is a classic novel with lessons that is universally recognized. Scrooge is a cold-hearted, bitter, and greedy man who detests Christmas. Joy is his enemy and he believes it to be unnecessary. Scrooge realizes a great deal about himself and those around him because of the spirits of Christmas Present, Past, and Future visits. Through those visits, he undergoes a transformation that effects the rest of his life. Ebenezer Scrooge sees firsthand how temptation can corrupt and how redemption can save.

Dickens paints Scrooge as a dodgy old man who is only concerned about making money and keeping it. Scrooge will not even allow his poor clerk more than one piece of coal during the harsh winter’s day. He scoffs at the idea of love and people having joy on Christmas. In A Christmas Carol, Scrooges fall is temptation. He is obsessed with money and the idea of not letting money go. Scrooge’s greed drives his fiancé away. She refuses to stay with him because he has made his profit his first priority in his life. Scrooge is so interested in his profit

Although there is temptation, there is always redemption if one has the right guidance. In 1 Timothy 6:9 it says, “But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.” In addition to Ecclesiastes 5:10 “He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.” Not only with money but also with any kind of temptation, one cannot be truly satisfied because there is always more. I believe that it does not matter the sin; God will always allow redemption but only if you want it. Romans 10:10 “For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.” Temptation is suppressed by redemption but you have to look for it and ask for