How Did Dickens Prevent Social Change In The Christmas Carol

Promoting Social Change by Charles Dickens
Did Dickens help prevent social change by writing the Christmas Carol? He certainly did, Dickens did help prevent social change by writing the Christmas Carol. I think he did because he wrote his books about social change. He wrote his books with the concern of health, treatment, and well-being of others. He wrote his books with concern because in his days many kids have been suffering and only wealthy people received good treatment. For example, people with money got to go to school and they received a good education, people who are not wealthy had to work. So Dickens tried to teach a lesson to everyone out there.
The first reason is in the Christmas Carol, Dickens created a character named Scrooge. Scrooge is supposed to be a rich, greedy, rude and selfish man. No one likes Scrooge because of how greedy he was. Dickens also created three spirits, each spirit teaches Scrooge a lesson. The spirits were sent to scare, threaten and teach him his mistakes which he has done in the past. The first spirit takes him back into his Christmas past. The first spirit wanted to show Scrooge how happy and kinder he was when he was little. The spirit taught him that he needs happiness more in his life. The second

spirit took Scrooge into his Christmas present. This spirit showed Scrooge what everyone says about him. All the things everyone said about him were not very nice. Another thing the spirit shows Scrooge is how happy the Cratchets are without money and how they have love for one another. The second spirit wanted to show that he needs to put joy, love, and happiness before money or balance the two things out. The third spirit shows Scrooge his future. In his future Scrooge dies early because all of the bad deeds he has done and he was very rude, selfish and careless. Once Scrooge died in his future he was not missed one bit, but instead everyone was cheering in joy that he died. Scrooge learns from this spirit that if he doesn’t change he will die early and won’t be missed.
Another thing Dickens showed us was that there is no difference between the wealthy and the poor. The only difference is that one has money and the other doesn’t. For example, if a wealthy and a non-so wealthy persons take off their clothes, they are exactly alike. Something in the Christmas Carol that made me realize this is that Scrooge was very wealthy but he was also very miserable there was no happiness going on in his life but the Cratchets were very happy even though they don’t have so much money. So do not compare if someone is not wealthy. The only thing that matters is if you are happy or not
The third lesson he taught us was to give back to the community.

Everyone should give back to the community whether it is something small by helping others out or something big to donating to the poor. Anyone could help out the community. For example, in the Christmas Carol Scrooge was approached by two gentlemen who were asking if Scrooge can donate money to the needy and the poor but then Scrooge replies “are there no prisoners?” Scrooge also says “are there no work houses?” and then Scrooge never donated which he should have donated. He didn’t donate but he did help the Cratchets until he was visited by a spirit. He helped the Cratchets by giving his clerk a Cratchet a

raise.
Dickens did help promote social change by writing the Christmas Carol. Somethings he taught us was not to judge each other whether rich or poor, not to put money before anything, give back to the community, always be happy and kind and generous, and always do good. The main reason Dickens wrote the Christmas Carol so he could send a message to society about not to be greedy and always make a change. It’s never too late to change. This is why I strongly think Dickens did help promote social change by writing a Christmas Carol.