On December 19, 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published.
Dickens was born in 1812 and attended school in Portsmouth. His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was thrown into debtors’ prison in 1824, and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors’ jail became topics of several of Dickens’ novels.
In his late teens, Dickens became a reporter and started publishing humorous short stories when he was 21. In 1836, a collection of his stories, Sketches by Boz, later known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, was published. The same year, he married Catherine Hogarth, with whom he would have nine children.
The short sketches in his collection were originally commissioned as captions for humorous drawings by caricature artist Robert Seymour, but Dickens’ whimsical stories about the kindly Samuel Pickwick and his fellow club members soon became popular in their own right. Only 400 copies were printed of the first installment, but by the 15th episode 40,000 copies were printed. When the stories were published in book form in 1837, Dickens quickly became the most popular author of the day.
The success of the Pickwick Papers was soon reproduced with Oliver Twist (1838) and Nicholas Nickleby (1839). In 1841, Dickens published two more novels, then spent five months in the United States, where he was welcomed as a literary hero. Dickens never lost momentum as a writer, churning out major novels every year or two, often in serial form. Among his most important works are David Copperfield (1850), Great Expectations (1861), and A Tale of Two Cities (1859).
Beginning in 1850, he published his own weekly circular of fiction, poetry, and essays called Household Words. In 1858, Dickens separated from his wife and began a long affair with a young actress. He gave frequent readings, which became immensely popular. He died in 1870 at the age of 58, with his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, still unfinished.
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Auntie is anticipating that moment when “A Christmas Carol” is proscribed from all global media and purged from all libraries as abominable Euro-Christian rayssiss propaganda to be replaced with instructive and liberating works from diverse, inclusive cultures.
“Dickens was born in 1812 and attended school in Portsmouth. His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was thrown into debtors’ prison in 1824, and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors’ jail became topics of several of Dickens’ novels.”
…then in 1867 Marx’s Das Kapitalwould be printed and the “long march” would be taken up to ensure that economic fairness and social justice would be administered under the complete authority of “The Workers” Party. Of course the only Political Party allowed would be controlled by a select few of the most murderous and ruthless adherents employing every asset and ruse to garner total and complete Power and Destruction. Fear became the primum movens of the individual to unity with the herd and ‘respect’ towards the Great Leader.
Soon, certainly by the turn of the next century, this ruinous poison of would start to creep around the world. At first, the ideas were predominantly based on economic thought and change. These ideas encouraged those predisposed to control by money and force, but were ineffectual in the broader populous. The ‘Intellectual’, chattering class,the Professorial and others of that genre were fascinated or, in some cases disgusted. However, the seed had been planted, it probably seemed so innocent to play with this new idea, to see just where it would lead if the paradigm were set in place. It could probably be likened to the computer game “SimCity”.
The first adherents to this new perspective were the weak and incompetent. Those who possessed integrity and moral fibre were denounced, maligned and impugned. Those who were of low moral character, mentally feeble, slothful and especially those who would claim that their plight was a cause of a repressive group, were held in high regard and celebrity.
Thus the feedback loop had been put into effect. Division amongst the classes and individuals had been discovered as the key to implementation. “The State is not whipping me. It’s that terrible Patriarchy!” Slogans on the protester’s placards are easy to conjure, just pick a ‘repressive group or person’.
All the while, most do not see those are gleeful that this method is working so well. They Seek Power,period, raw naked power. Destruction is their road and abject Control assures them they will be in Power forever.
Value, morality, truthfulness, industry, respect for self and others, reason, beauty and other traits of “The West” were and are in severe decline.
These are very easily discernible for those who will look and seek understanding. Yet, it seems that ever greater numbers are treading into the slippery slope.
“…and you’ll own nothing and you will like it.”
I always suspected Dickens’ inspiration for the story was Luke 16: 22-31, where the deceased rich man asked permission to warn his brothers.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2016%3A22-31&version=KJV
would the family been better off if charles had been forbidden to work ?