Film

A Christmas Carol (1935)

I. About the Film

 A Christmas Carol, probably the most popular piece of fiction that Dickens ever wrote, was published in 1843.

Popularity of  A Christmas Carol

  A Christmas Carol was the most successful book of the 1843 holiday season.  By Christmas it sold six thousand copies and it continued to be popular into the new year.  Eight stage adaptations were in production within two months of the book’s publication.
The book is as popular today as it was over 150 years ago.  Charles Dickens, through the voice of Scrooge, continues to urge us to honor Christmas in our hearts and  try to keep it all the year.

Ragged Schools  

  Dickens was involved in charities and social issues throughout his entire life.  At the time that he wrote A Christmas Carol he was very concerned with impoverished children who turned to crime and delinquency in order to survive.


  The book was written at a time when the British were examining and exploring Christmas traditions from the past as well as new customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. Carol singing took a new lease on life during this time. Dickens's sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas storie and fairy tales.

 

Works Cited(参考文献）

 "A Christmas Carol." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 28 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol>.           

III. About the Author

Charles Dickens

 

 

 

 

 

  He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.  His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
 

  Late in 1842 or early in 1843 Dickens begins work on Martin Chuzzlewit.

Dickens begins work onA Christmas Carol in October of 1843. 

It is published during the holiday season of that year.On January 15, 1844 Francis Jeffery Dickens, the third son of Charles Dickens, is born.

  Dickens published more than a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories, including a number of Christmas-themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books. Dickens's novels were initially serialised in weekly and monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats.

 

• The Adventures of Oliver Twist
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
• A Christmas Carol(1843)
• The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
• Little Dorrit

Works Cited (参考文献)

 "Charles Dickens." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 28 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens>.                                                  

 

 

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - mood (物語の雰囲気)
 

• 定義：a story's atmosphere or the feeling it
• The story's atmosphere is mysterious and beautiful.

B. Reaction Point - message (中心的な考えやストーリーの声明)
 

• 定義：the central idea or statement of a story
•  Dickens's sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.
   

C. Reaction Point - characters (登場人物）
 

• 定義：persons — or animals or natural forces represented as persons — in a work of literature

• Bob Cratchit  -  Scrooge's clerk, a kind, mild, and very poor man with a large family.

• Tiny Tim -  Bob Cratchit's young son, crippled from birth.

• Jacob Marley -  In the living world, Ebenezer Scrooge's equally greedy partner.

• The Ghost of Christmas Past  -  The first spirit to visit Scrooge, a curiously childlike apparition with a glowing head.

• The Ghost of Christmas Present  -  The second spirit to visit Scrooge, a majestic giant clad in a green robe.

 

D. My General Opinion

  I knew two of the representative works of Charles Dickens.
They are Oliver Twist and Christmas Carol.
I had seen the Oliver Twist, but I had never seen the Christmas Carol.
So,This time, It was good to be able to see this movie!