I have never heard someone to accurately and succinctly describe exactly how I feel about Christmas. I grew up extremely poor and a social outcast and the sudden care and concern during the holidays left a bad taste in my mouth I still haven't shook. I remember telling my Mom as a kid after getting a charity box of food for Christmas "We need to eat the rest of the year too. Why doesn't anyone care then?"
Ebenezer Scrooge for me isn't a villain who simply changes his ways, he's a tormented soul (tormented by himself) and manages to break out of his self destructive cycle by having experiences he never had as a young man.
I have the same sentiment for birthdays and professional holidays: all year round everyone ignores you at best, or actively hates you at worst, but for that one day of the year you're suddenly the star child. Yea, no, thanks.
My perspective (empathy) for Scrooge has changed through the years. As I get older (now in my 50’s) I can see aspects of the Scrooge character in my own life. I wear a Memento Mori ring as a daily reminder of my personal ghosts who will haunt me until my own eventual demise. It changes the way you interact with the world.
Something that stuck with me on a recent viewing of a play rehearsal is that Scrooge's miserliness begins with a fear that the world is cruel and unfair, and the only he knows to protect himself is to be cruel and unfair right back to it. A growing fear of the world and its people is something I see much of today.
I believe those were Scrooge's first words to Marley upon working together. "The world is a cold and unforgiving place, and we must steele ourselves against it." Marley took those words and approach to life to heart and came to regret it.
I can relate to the healthy cynicism of the holiday season. However I always detected a guilt like energy in the adults around me rather than a self serving performance to get gifts. There was a sense of “I know this is how I should be so I’m going to really try.” It never lasted long, of course, cuz it’s so much easier to be callus and mean, even among family. But there’d was at least an attempt to embrace the better aspects of their nature. Amazing that you picked up on that so young. Still, on a more upbeat note, I love your accent and your lipstick is mesmerizing 😘
I feel bad for Scrooge in our modern vernacular. If you call someone a "Scrooge" you're calling them the miserly, penny pinching, bitter version of Scrooge before his revelation. It shows that, despite this genuine change of heart that he has, we as a society still only see the previous version of Scrooge that no longer exists.
Scrooge did have biological family. His nephew Fred, son if his beloved sister. 😊 Part of Scrooge's reformation included promises of spending time with Fred and His Mrs. Scrooge seemed to have become like his own Father, cold and distant.
Exactly, that's why I think he grew into a cold and distant man, because we learn what "is normal" from our parents, it's why so many children from abusive homes don't understand the abuse they witnessed or experienced isn't normal until they're much older.
The "Christmas Carol" has of a long time been a favorite story of mine because it reoccurs every year like a famous comet. Every December the three ghosts reappear and I loose sleep for a while. It is all "humbug'.
Your gorgeous face is back!! 🤩🥰 Loving these story videos...what's better than library time 😍💕 I'm Jewish so have no connection to Christmas but I love this story 📚
From what I recall although, I don't think very many adaptations put too much emphasis on it, he does have a living nephew Fred. Fred tries to invite him to Christmas dinner but Scrooge being himself denies the request. He hides himself away not just from the people that he doesn't know but even the only person he has left. And again if I recall right he does see his nephew in passing while he is going to Bob Bob Cratchit's with the turkey or somewhere around in there and he tells his nephew that he will see him tonight. So I took the story as he finally realizes that he can be happier with what little friends and family he has. I love your whole video and I appreciate you sharing your opinions and perspectives, but I just wanted to point that out
Yes, seeing Fred is painful for Scrooge because Fred reminds him too much of his beloved sister (Fred's mother, of course) one of the few people in the world he loved and lost. Sad.
I’m so excited to watch this one ^_^ My favorite Christmas story is this one… and my favorite film adaptations are “muppets Christmas carol” for its accuracy and loyalty to the book, and “Scrooge” for how well it kept to the spirit of the story.
It should be noted that all of this occurs in Scrooge's bedroom; his private chambers are supposed to be an impenetrable fortress from which he can keep the outside world at bay, but the ghosts enter into his room regardless. If the ghosts are interpreted as an expression of imagination, then it shows that Scrooge cannot escape his own thoughts, especially in a dreaming state where his mind (and the ghosts) reign wild.
great video I always loved this story a metaphorical encounter of spirits to be more argument about greed versus generosity Is the best thing about the season actually 👍
In his essay _Looking Back on the Spanish War_ George Orwell wrote "The pious ones, from the Pope to the yogis of California, are great on the ‘changes of heart’, much more reassuring from their point of view than a change in the economic system."
This is definitely a unique take on a story I have seen adapted a million times. I'm raised Catholic and I always saw the Ghost of Christmas Future as representing Death or the concept of Memento Mori. Happy Holidays to my favorite Dark Academka Lady!
I can understand disliking the holidays. I come from an extremely dysfunctional family, literally 11 months of a year they act terrible to everything and everyone. Yet here comes December and the closer Christmas draws nearer they start suddenly being nice. Yet an hour after they open all their gifts, back to normal hateful people. Anymore I don't participate in the holidays, I've never had a good one and it always seems like when I try it's shot down in flames. Anyways, I loved you're video and as always full of great information.
Dear Cinzia, thank you for this! Love your voice. But I am so sorry to see you deleted all your ‘older’ content 😢😮. I loved to rewach your stuff about no buy years and financial views …
Scrooge had a nephew as his only living relative. I believe that if Scrooge already knew of the Cratchet’s situation, he would have already cleaned his act.
This was wonderfully articulated and I've never thought of a subtext in the story that's repeated all the time. Now that it has new light for me ,I'm going to rewatch my favorite , a muppet Christmas Carol hahaha :) I never thought about the first line like that or that the hauntings may not be something everyone would see ,it's the kind of stuff that haunts us all.
I feel about Christmas how you did before you altered your perspective a little. Cannot stand the constant capitalism rammed down our throats, ads of everything you MUST get/do for Christmas and the ever earlier adverts on TV that have now started as soon as November 5th is out of the way in the UK
Here in Moldova some businesses started putting up decorations in mid-November, i think, but the tv ads began running in December. In general, they're not so bad: cozy, slow, family-oriented. Sure, they're still ads, but compared to the obnoxiously loud and openly stupid ones we have the rest of the year, they're a major improvement.
Call me hopeless (or just the opposite), but there are days when I need the illusion that an a**hole can actually turn into a nice person. Happy holidays!
What a great analysis of a story that is well-known to so many, but that many (myself included) hadn't really thought about in terms of historical context, politics etc.
So my new head canon for the line "Tiny Tim did not die" is that in a freak combination of Victorian medicine Tim becomes immoral and out lives the universe.
Hauntology is one of my favourite scholarly concepts, and I am utterly delighted to see you explain it so succinctly in relation to a Crlhristmas Carol. Bravo!
To me, it depends on ME MYSELF. And for me, it was never limited to December this "general love towards man and all of humanity and creation". That was something you should TRY and practice (your selfishness and ego, I mean) ALL YEAR ROUND. Christmas was just a holiday thats "extra EXTRA" intensity. Not some kind of "test cheat" to somehow absolve us of the past years selfishness and personal moral shortcomings or something along those lines. And WHATEVER ANY christian will tell me, I will ALWAYS regard it as J-babys birthday. Not particularly overly religious, but I do believe. And there goes any regard a modern intellectual might have for me regardless of other qualities. Ha! Jokes on you! I dont care! My love for Christmas was given to me by my family, and so, I will always hold it dear. This strange historic mishmash of Christianity (pinebranches instead of palmleaves), Divine Nature (Tree of life), and Asatro (Norse mythology). I actually dont get the hate for Christmas at all. Just because a lot of material stuff is going on DOESNT MEAN YOU HAVE TO INDULGE THAT PART OF IT. I hope your story gets a Cindy Lou Who-type of ending. ( aaand soon the the haters will come with wiseguy comments) (jokes on you, Ill probs have forgotten this comment by then).
I myself have always enjoyed A Christmas Carol because it seems to move people to try to be nicer to others. I haven't been in the unfortunate circumstances you have however, so though I do get a sense of disingenuiousness from what's 'popular' and the adversitements I see around this season, most of the real people around me truly do hold good will toward others. Especially with how far north of the equator I live at where the sun is gone most of the day and seasonal depression is hitting high gear for many, including myself, my family's found that the best way to cope is to embrace selflessness and recommit ourselves to being kind to everyone for the rest of the year.
From.another angle. the ghosts time space dimension travel abilities are the same as reported by people who have contact + many sorts of aliens--- Dr. Who instead of the ghosts + Scrooge?
Recently, I sat through a reading of "A Christmas Karol" by Edmund Welles, as read by a person under some form of duress. Disappointment. Wasn't worth bothering the chap at the bookstore over.
All I can say is that this year my Christmas 🎄 sprit is gone and all I can say is bar humbug love this video and your amazing channel please stay safe and enjoy your reading 📖 love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
I just realized that Scrounge is a word play by Dickens. So when he says by this book :"don't be like Scrounge", what he really means is " don't get screwed". I never knew so much about the story apart from the movies. I personally can relate to not liking the holidays as 3 years ago something bad happened that have 'killed' my joy for the holiday . Thank you for the analysis and happy holidays anyway. Hope you have fun
Thank you for this addition although I got lost in some of the words, your succinct explanation helped open my eyes to what I've been taking for granted. Absolutely love your work, please keep it coming...ps Yay your back!
I’ve enjoyed your excellent presentation about A Christmas Carol. The theme of redemption is obvious, but I’ve always wondered whether the use of three ghosts was meant to reflect the Christian trinity. Thoughts?
Holy shit, I think my brain almost broke during the first half of the video. I think I got around to understand things better in the second half. But then again, I never read a Christmas Carol, I only know the Disney movie and we did a theater production in school when I was a child. (I was scrooge) Also, this comment was made to boost engagement...
It was an excellent video! You might like The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike. It looks like a silly little book, but it’s a bit serious in its own way.
Scrooge represents the fallacy of personal responsibility. He spends his life maximizing his earnings and minimizing his expenditure but ends up isolated and bitter.
Your voice is lovely. You could be a narrator of audiobooks. I would happily listen to your voice, narrating a novel. Many supposed 'narrators' of audiobooks do not even know what is narrating. They only read aloud, there is a vast difference between reading aloud and narrating a book. I think you could be an awesome narrator.
Excellent video! Your arguments point to the importance of literature functioning both as a mirror into ourselves but also as a window into others’ experiences, and it is this very dichotomy that allows this juxtaposition to inform our emotions and social understanding of the experiences of others. Wonderful food for thought! Thank you for sharing your expertise!❤
I feel very grateful to have found your channel. I love hearing your analyses and interpretations. I am also a bit of a Scrooge at heart, and the juxtapositions you touched on, especially the capitalism implications, really brought a new life to this story for me. Fun fact: I had to write a second ending to this story in elementary school. I turned in a paper that used the word b*stard, because I didn't realize it was a bad word (just thought it sounded cool), and got scolded hahah. Thank you for a great video 🙏🏼
I love the way you break down this Christmas classic. Scrooge is I agree such a liminal character and the ghosts return is a a theme which has haunted us all for time immemorial. I love that the gave stone in Edinburgh and Dickens dyslexia gave us the magnificent character who will become a ‘great redeemer’ to the expense of realising that community has some worth, even for the solitary man.
my shift happened just today, on my 25th year alive. but i dont want it to, i like christmas T.T i just need to be sure to stay home this time of year!
I bet we would have gotten along very well as children because same. I still loathe this time of year and all its trappings. Wake me up sometime in January when it's all over.
I love your take on this!! This is something my partner and I have had multiple day conversations on - Christmas ethics and meaning in society, the problems, ways of celebrating the festive season, and the ways we want to do it. The meaning and social are very heavily discussed during out conversations. I love that you chose dickens to have this conversation and delve into! I think it is very interesting! Also, it’s good to see you! I love the avatar character but it’s good to see you!❤
All my family ever did was fight on christmas and we were forced to watch the bloodbath that was The Nativity Story every year(of course at the time i was a huge fan but now i fn hate it) i have a very sour taste in my mouth of christmas i never got to.believe in santa like most kids sure we did oh the parents are santa but still felt left out of childhood.
I love your content, I just never realized how pale you are. This is not a critique, it is only an observation I know comments help the channel and I could not think of anything important to say. I've read Dickens' Christmas Carol several times but never thought of the perspective you presented, maybe I should have started with that point. Who even reads these comments. Thank you for your wonderful perspective.,
I really enjoy this story. I actually read it at least once during the year BEFORE my reading of it at Christmas. My personal favorite was the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and the night full of lamenting spirits that Scrooge watches Marley float out into after their discussion. "The trouble with all of them, clearly, was that they sought to interfere in human matters, for good, and had lost that power for ever." This always reminds me that death is the end of our ability to make other people's burdens a little less heavy, the end of our ability to help. So if you're gonna help, you had better get busy doing it. I love being reminded of this. Thank you for making this video on one of my most beloved stories, so much. Your videos always feel like such a gift to me, Cinzia.❄
AAAH! LIBRARY LADY DOES CHRISTMAS CAROL! OH, FRABJOUS DAY! (Wait; wrong reference...) GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE! LIKE! LIKE! LIKE! And so on. I haven't even watched yet, but I KNOW this is gonna rock! (Also, great ghostly face. I see what you did there...)
My family = me, wife, 5 daughters, two sons, 24 g-kids, 43 inlaws, have decided on One huge week at Summers End for a gathering. And not see each other over Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. No gifts over the Holidays. Going on the third year now, so far it's Great.
Wow ! That take on the story never did occur to me. Of course, I never read the original tale but only watched all the movie and televised adaptations over the years. I'm a Christian but I'm also aware that Christmas wasn't always a Christian holiday. Also, I can't disagree with your views on it , though for my own reasons I try green some positivity out of it even though others (if not all) are doing it out of a masked gesture of generosity.
The Museum of the Mind, but where is the Theater of the Eye??? Charity is a critical component needed for capitalism to continue to survive and something I don't think Marx realized. Stretching out "The Game" metaphor, capitalism has always been one that seeks to have far more losers to empower the winners. Under conditions where more and more people have needs that are continually unfulfilled, capitalism can't survive. People would eventually rise up in solidarity with each other for something different as has happened in societies and cultures throughout history. Charity comes is to wash the reputations of those that exploit others clean and show some level humanity by "looking out for those that have less" while ignoring that conditions that caused so many to have less to begin with. There is a inherent illogic to charity. How many charities exist to combat hunger and how long have they existed? Why do you need any charity to prevent hunger? Either human capacity and production of food is high enough to feed everyone which means that we need to decommodify food so everyone can eat free from hunger, or there isn't enough food produced to feed everyone and the charities can't ever really succeed. Charity exists currently as a kind of pressure valve that lets a small portion of ill gotten resources from those that stole them to those that need them so that the winners look like good benefactors and stewards so that people don't work to stop the exploitation causing their material deficiency.
Dickens had successful stories from poorer characters getting charity or success and classism being a thing of the past for the rich where they instead treat poorer as "equals" that are moral characters...though really even if based on religious views of what Jesus would see in capitalism in how to be a better humanist there is still issues as you mentioned.
I think Dickens' works which targeted the need for social reform have lost that meaning. The modern reader can see the horrors of Victorian Britain but might not see the lack of some of those horrors in the present was due in part to Dickens' writings.
I never thought of "A Christmas Carol" as a social metaphor. I know that Dickens' work is partly responsable for the modern idea that exist in the northern hemisphere. Here in South America, the catholic tradition gave more importance to the Three Magi ( what you called Epiphany night). Of course, Christmas and Santa Claus (Papa Noel) imposed themselves at the end. Great video Lady!
People feel christmas is a sham because they've forgotten what it's about - it's about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. If you're not somebody who views Christmas from a particularly spiritual (which is different from religious) angle, then Christmas would come off to you as fake and hollow and rife with greed since that's the only side of it you're gonna be exposed to. If you celebrate it with a thankful heart and love from the people who matter to you and you to them and reverence for God, then perhaps your experience might be quite different.
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I have never heard someone to accurately and succinctly describe exactly how I feel about Christmas. I grew up extremely poor and a social outcast and the sudden care and concern during the holidays left a bad taste in my mouth I still haven't shook. I remember telling my Mom as a kid after getting a charity box of food for Christmas "We need to eat the rest of the year too. Why doesn't anyone care then?"
Ebenezer Scrooge for me isn't a villain who simply changes his ways, he's a tormented soul (tormented by himself) and manages to break out of his self destructive cycle by having experiences he never had as a young man.
I have the same sentiment for birthdays and professional holidays: all year round everyone ignores you at best, or actively hates you at worst, but for that one day of the year you're suddenly the star child. Yea, no, thanks.
My perspective (empathy) for Scrooge has changed through the years. As I get older (now in my 50’s) I can see aspects of the Scrooge character in my own life. I wear a Memento Mori ring as a daily reminder of my personal ghosts who will haunt me until my own eventual demise. It changes the way you interact with the world.
Something that stuck with me on a recent viewing of a play rehearsal is that Scrooge's miserliness begins with a fear that the world is cruel and unfair, and the only he knows to protect himself is to be cruel and unfair right back to it. A growing fear of the world and its people is something I see much of today.
I believe those were Scrooge's first words to Marley upon working together. "The world is a cold and unforgiving place, and we must steele ourselves against it." Marley took those words and approach to life to heart and came to regret it.
Scrooge preferred to fight. exploit. oppress, dominate others rather than
co operate + them.
I can relate to the healthy cynicism of the holiday season. However I always detected a guilt like energy in the adults around me rather than a self serving performance to get gifts. There was a sense of “I know this is how I should be so I’m going to really try.” It never lasted long, of course, cuz it’s so much easier to be callus and mean, even among family. But there’d was at least an attempt to embrace the better aspects of their nature. Amazing that you picked up on that so young.
Still, on a more upbeat note, I love your accent and your lipstick is mesmerizing 😘
I feel bad for Scrooge in our modern vernacular. If you call someone a "Scrooge" you're calling them the miserly, penny pinching, bitter version of Scrooge before his revelation. It shows that, despite this genuine change of heart that he has, we as a society still only see the previous version of Scrooge that no longer exists.
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Scrooge did have biological family. His nephew Fred, son if his beloved sister. 😊
Part of Scrooge's reformation included promises of spending time with Fred and His Mrs.
Scrooge seemed to have become like his own Father, cold and distant.
Exactly, that's why I think he grew into a cold and distant man, because we learn what "is normal" from our parents, it's why so many children from abusive homes don't understand the abuse they witnessed or experienced isn't normal until they're much older.
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 quite typical of the times. No empathy or sympathy.
The "Christmas Carol" has of a long time been a favorite story of mine because it reoccurs every year like a famous comet. Every December the three ghosts reappear and I loose sleep for a while. It is all "humbug'.
Your gorgeous face is back!! 🤩🥰 Loving these story videos...what's better than library time 😍💕 I'm Jewish so have no connection to Christmas but I love this story 📚
From what I recall although, I don't think very many adaptations put too much emphasis on it, he does have a living nephew Fred. Fred tries to invite him to Christmas dinner but Scrooge being himself denies the request. He hides himself away not just from the people that he doesn't know but even the only person he has left. And again if I recall right he does see his nephew in passing while he is going to Bob Bob Cratchit's with the turkey or somewhere around in there and he tells his nephew that he will see him tonight. So I took the story as he finally realizes that he can be happier with what little friends and family he has. I love your whole video and I appreciate you sharing your opinions and perspectives, but I just wanted to point that out
"And Merry Christmas Uncle!"
BAH!
"...and happy New Year!'
BAAAAAAHH!!
Yes, seeing Fred is painful for Scrooge because Fred reminds him too much of his beloved sister (Fred's mother, of course) one of the few people in the world he loved and lost. Sad.
I’m so excited to watch this one ^_^
My favorite Christmas story is this one… and my favorite film adaptations are “muppets Christmas carol” for its accuracy and loyalty to the book, and “Scrooge” for how well it kept to the spirit of the story.
Thank you so much Cinzia, what a fascinating Christmas Carol video! 🙆♀️
Yes girl, bring back ye olde winter ghost stories!
It should be noted that all of this occurs in Scrooge's bedroom; his private chambers are supposed to be an impenetrable fortress from which he can keep the outside world at bay, but the ghosts enter into his room regardless. If the ghosts are interpreted as an expression of imagination, then it shows that Scrooge cannot escape his own thoughts, especially in a dreaming state where his mind (and the ghosts) reign wild.
great video I always loved this story a metaphorical encounter of spirits to be more argument about greed versus generosity Is the best thing about the season actually 👍
In his essay _Looking Back on the Spanish War_ George Orwell wrote "The pious ones, from the Pope to the yogis of California, are great on the ‘changes of heart’, much more reassuring from their point of view than a change in the economic system."
This is definitely a unique take on a story I have seen adapted a million times.
I'm raised Catholic and I always saw the Ghost of Christmas Future as representing Death or the concept of Memento Mori.
Happy Holidays to my favorite Dark Academka Lady!
I can understand disliking the holidays. I come from an extremely dysfunctional family, literally 11 months of a year they act terrible to everything and everyone. Yet here comes December and the closer Christmas draws nearer they start suddenly being nice. Yet an hour after they open all their gifts, back to normal hateful people. Anymore I don't participate in the holidays, I've never had a good one and it always seems like when I try it's shot down in flames.
Anyways, I loved you're video and as always full of great information.
Thank you Cinzia, beautifully written. I wish you all the best this holiday season, no strings attached.
Dear Cinzia, thank you for this! Love your voice. But I am so sorry to see you deleted all your ‘older’ content 😢😮. I loved to rewach your stuff about no buy years and financial views …
Scrooge had a nephew as his only living relative.
I believe that if Scrooge already knew of the Cratchet’s situation, he would have already cleaned his act.
This was wonderfully articulated and I've never thought of a subtext in the story that's repeated all the time. Now that it has new light for me ,I'm going to rewatch my favorite , a muppet Christmas Carol hahaha :)
I never thought about the first line like that or that the hauntings may not be something everyone would see ,it's the kind of stuff that haunts us all.
I feel about Christmas how you did before you altered your perspective a little. Cannot stand the constant capitalism rammed down our throats, ads of everything you MUST get/do for Christmas and the ever earlier adverts on TV that have now started as soon as November 5th is out of the way in the UK
Here in Moldova some businesses started putting up decorations in mid-November, i think, but the tv ads began running in December. In general, they're not so bad: cozy, slow, family-oriented. Sure, they're still ads, but compared to the obnoxiously loud and openly stupid ones we have the rest of the year, they're a major improvement.
Call me hopeless (or just the opposite), but there are days when I need the illusion that an a**hole can actually turn into a nice person. Happy holidays!
What a great analysis of a story that is well-known to so many, but that many (myself included) hadn't really thought about in terms of historical context, politics etc.
So my new head canon for the line "Tiny Tim did not die" is that in a freak combination of Victorian medicine Tim becomes immoral and out lives the universe.
Your voice is mesmerizing!
I would love to hear your take on the works of Aleister Crowley!!
So interesting, thank you!
Oh my goodness!😃this video came at the perfect time,my school is finishing our final production of this play tonight 😄
Hauntology is one of my favourite scholarly concepts, and I am utterly delighted to see you explain it so succinctly in relation to a Crlhristmas Carol. Bravo!
To me, it depends on ME MYSELF. And for me, it was never limited to December this "general love towards man and all of humanity and creation". That was something you should TRY and practice (your selfishness and ego, I mean) ALL YEAR ROUND. Christmas was just a holiday thats "extra EXTRA" intensity. Not some kind of "test cheat" to somehow absolve us of the past years selfishness and personal moral shortcomings or something along those lines. And WHATEVER ANY christian will tell me, I will ALWAYS regard it as J-babys birthday. Not particularly overly religious, but I do believe. And there goes any regard a modern intellectual might have for me regardless of other qualities. Ha! Jokes on you! I dont care! My love for Christmas was given to me by my family, and so, I will always hold it dear. This strange historic mishmash of Christianity (pinebranches instead of palmleaves), Divine Nature (Tree of life), and Asatro (Norse mythology). I actually dont get the hate for Christmas at all. Just because a lot of material stuff is going on DOESNT MEAN YOU HAVE TO INDULGE THAT PART OF IT. I hope your story gets a Cindy Lou Who-type of ending. ( aaand soon the the haters will come with wiseguy comments) (jokes on you, Ill probs have forgotten this comment by then).
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I myself have always enjoyed A Christmas Carol because it seems to move people to try to be nicer to others. I haven't been in the unfortunate circumstances you have however, so though I do get a sense of disingenuiousness from what's 'popular' and the adversitements I see around this season, most of the real people around me truly do hold good will toward others. Especially with how far north of the equator I live at where the sun is gone most of the day and seasonal depression is hitting high gear for many, including myself, my family's found that the best way to cope is to embrace selflessness and recommit ourselves to being kind to everyone for the rest of the year.
I loved this study of Dickens Christmas Carol😊
But what about yule :O
It's so nice to see you
Thank you so much for posting the references we love to see it ^_^
Good stuff Kiddo.
From.another angle. the ghosts time
space dimension travel abilities are
the same as reported by people who
have contact + many sorts of aliens---
Dr. Who instead of the ghosts + Scrooge?
Very interesting---political economy,sociology. psychology.
political.economy.of Christmas
Correction - Scrooge does have biological family - HIS nephew,…
Yes ma’am
Recently, I sat through a reading of "A Christmas Karol" by Edmund Welles, as read by a person under some form of duress. Disappointment. Wasn't worth bothering the chap at the bookstore over.
Downloaded this and a couple others for my flight today! Thank you Cinzia!
All I can say is that this year my Christmas 🎄 sprit is gone and all I can say is bar humbug love this video and your amazing channel please stay safe and enjoy your reading 📖 love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
@Terri Coleson that’s amazing 😉 and I will have to try and come up with some suggestions
I love your eloquently delivered content. Happy Holidays and many Yuletide Blessings
I just realized that Scrounge is a word play by Dickens. So when he says by this book :"don't be like Scrounge", what he really means is " don't get screwed".
I never knew so much about the story apart from the movies. I personally can relate to not liking the holidays as 3 years ago something bad happened that have 'killed' my joy for the holiday .
Thank you for the analysis and happy holidays anyway. Hope you have fun
Thank you for this addition although I got lost in some of the words, your succinct explanation helped open my eyes to what I've been taking for granted. Absolutely love your work, please keep it coming...ps Yay your back!
I’ve enjoyed your excellent presentation about A Christmas Carol. The theme of redemption is obvious, but I’ve always wondered whether the use of three ghosts was meant to reflect the Christian trinity. Thoughts?
Holy shit, I think my brain almost broke during the first half of the video.
I think I got around to understand things better in the second half. But then again, I never read a Christmas Carol, I only know the Disney movie and we did a theater production in school when I was a child. (I was scrooge)
Also, this comment was made to boost engagement...
It was an excellent video! You might like The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike. It looks like a silly little book, but it’s a bit serious in its own way.
Perhaps you will favor us with a Wondrum series of your own. BTW, I’m very glad to see you again. I’ve missed the visual aspect of your posts.
Scrooge represents the fallacy of personal responsibility. He spends his life maximizing his earnings and minimizing his expenditure but ends up isolated and bitter.
Your voice is lovely. You could be a narrator of audiobooks.
I would happily listen to your voice, narrating a novel.
Many supposed 'narrators' of audiobooks do not even know what is narrating. They only read aloud, there is a vast difference between reading aloud and narrating a book. I think you could be an awesome narrator.
Excellent video! Your arguments point to the importance of literature functioning both as a mirror into ourselves but also as a window into others’ experiences, and it is this very dichotomy that allows this juxtaposition to inform our emotions and social understanding of the experiences of others. Wonderful food for thought! Thank you for sharing your expertise!❤
Great video I don't particularly care for Christmas either 🙂 you have a beautiful voice 💖
I feel very grateful to have found your channel. I love hearing your analyses and interpretations. I am also a bit of a Scrooge at heart, and the juxtapositions you touched on, especially the capitalism implications, really brought a new life to this story for me. Fun fact: I had to write a second ending to this story in elementary school. I turned in a paper that used the word b*stard, because I didn't realize it was a bad word (just thought it sounded cool), and got scolded hahah. Thank you for a great video 🙏🏼
I love the way you break down this Christmas classic. Scrooge is I agree such a liminal character and the ghosts return is a a theme which has haunted us all for time immemorial. I love that the gave stone in Edinburgh and Dickens dyslexia gave us the magnificent character who will become a ‘great redeemer’ to the expense of realising that community has some worth, even for the solitary man.
Thank you for explaining how Marx haunts our psyches so long as we have capitalism and then choosing that moment to take a commercial break.
my shift happened just today, on my 25th year alive. but i dont want it to, i like christmas T.T i just need to be sure to stay home this time of year!
I bet we would have gotten along very well as children because same. I still loathe this time of year and all its trappings. Wake me up sometime in January when it's all over.
I love your take on this!! This is something my partner and I have had multiple day conversations on - Christmas ethics and meaning in society, the problems, ways of celebrating the festive season, and the ways we want to do it. The meaning and social are very heavily discussed during out conversations. I love that you chose dickens to have this conversation and delve into! I think it is very interesting! Also, it’s good to see you! I love the avatar character but it’s good to see you!❤
Can you do a video on the man who invented christmas about charles dickens inspiration regarding a christmas carol.
Dickens Haunted Man's Bargain is an underated story in my view
Love to see a spot of Yuletide Hauntology! Brilliant video, as always.
All my family ever did was fight on christmas and we were forced to watch the bloodbath that was The Nativity Story every year(of course at the time i was a huge fan but now i fn hate it) i have a very sour taste in my mouth of christmas i never got to.believe in santa like most kids sure we did oh the parents are santa but still felt left out of childhood.
very well argumentated. Love all your excellent references!!
Love to see you back 👍
I love your videos, this was a great analysis
Good video. Good overview of the story and analyses
I'll go stand under the holly, now.
Tiny tim always annoyed the hell out of me.
Merry Christmas m’lady.
This is such a well delivered analysis!
Capitalism 🤦🏾♀️
I really enjoyed this one
I wish we could be friends
My feelings exactly
Fab! Thanks so much.
I love your content, I just never realized how pale you are. This is not a critique, it is only an observation I know comments help the channel and I could not think of anything important to say. I've read Dickens' Christmas Carol several times but never thought of the perspective you presented, maybe I should have started with that point. Who even reads these comments. Thank you for your wonderful perspective.,
I really enjoy this story. I actually read it at least once during the year BEFORE my reading of it at Christmas. My personal favorite was the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and the night full of lamenting spirits that Scrooge watches Marley float out into after their discussion. "The trouble with all of them, clearly, was that they sought to interfere in human matters, for good, and had lost that power for ever." This always reminds me that death is the end of our ability to make other people's burdens a little less heavy, the end of our ability to help. So if you're gonna help, you had better get busy doing it. I love being reminded of this. Thank you for making this video on one of my most beloved stories, so much. Your videos always feel like such a gift to me, Cinzia.❄
I like to read the Carol every December. Thank you I get to read it this year a bit better. Thanks
Hope you enjoy it!
AAAH! LIBRARY LADY DOES CHRISTMAS CAROL! OH, FRABJOUS DAY! (Wait; wrong reference...) GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE! LIKE! LIKE! LIKE! And so on. I haven't even watched yet, but I KNOW this is gonna rock! (Also, great ghostly face. I see what you did there...)
Wonderful !
My family = me, wife, 5 daughters, two sons, 24 g-kids, 43 inlaws, have decided on One huge week at Summers End for a gathering. And not see each other over Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. No gifts over the Holidays. Going on the third year now, so far it's Great.
Cinzia, I love you but I hate Derrida. Sorry, didn't make it through. Have a good Christmas.
Well, this is a surprise. Thanks so much and great choice of topic!
Did you fix your camera?
Wow ! That take on the story never did occur to me. Of course, I never read the original tale but only watched all the movie and televised adaptations over the years. I'm a Christian but I'm also aware that Christmas wasn't always a Christian holiday. Also, I can't disagree with your views on it , though for my own reasons I try green some positivity out of it even though others (if not all) are doing it out of a masked gesture of generosity.
The Museum of the Mind, but where is the Theater of the Eye???
Charity is a critical component needed for capitalism to continue to survive and something I don't think Marx realized. Stretching out "The Game" metaphor, capitalism has always been one that seeks to have far more losers to empower the winners. Under conditions where more and more people have needs that are continually unfulfilled, capitalism can't survive. People would eventually rise up in solidarity with each other for something different as has happened in societies and cultures throughout history. Charity comes is to wash the reputations of those that exploit others clean and show some level humanity by "looking out for those that have less" while ignoring that conditions that caused so many to have less to begin with. There is a inherent illogic to charity. How many charities exist to combat hunger and how long have they existed? Why do you need any charity to prevent hunger? Either human capacity and production of food is high enough to feed everyone which means that we need to decommodify food so everyone can eat free from hunger, or there isn't enough food produced to feed everyone and the charities can't ever really succeed. Charity exists currently as a kind of pressure valve that lets a small portion of ill gotten resources from those that stole them to those that need them so that the winners look like good benefactors and stewards so that people don't work to stop the exploitation causing their material deficiency.
All that pale makeup makes your eyes really pretty
It's not pale makeup... it's skin match
Is this a series? I'm just really hoping Krampus is next.♡♡♡
Dickens had successful stories from poorer characters getting charity or success and classism being a thing of the past for the rich where they instead treat poorer as "equals" that are moral characters...though really even if based on religious views of what Jesus would see in capitalism in how to be a better humanist there is still issues as you mentioned.
I think Dickens' works which targeted the need for social reform have lost that meaning. The modern reader can see the horrors of Victorian Britain but might not see the lack of some of those horrors in the present was due in part to Dickens' writings.
Dickens has nothing to do with it. If you want to thank someone thank the capitalists who bring you the best products for the lowest price.
I never thought of "A Christmas Carol" as a social metaphor. I know that Dickens' work is partly responsable for the modern idea that exist in the northern hemisphere. Here in South America, the catholic tradition gave more importance to the Three Magi ( what you called Epiphany night). Of course, Christmas and Santa Claus (Papa Noel) imposed themselves at the end. Great video Lady!
Couldn't put it better myself.
very thoughtful video
People feel christmas is a sham because they've forgotten what it's about - it's about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. If you're not somebody who views Christmas from a particularly spiritual (which is different from religious) angle, then Christmas would come off to you as fake and hollow and rife with greed since that's the only side of it you're gonna be exposed to.
If you celebrate it with a thankful heart and love from the people who matter to you and you to them and reverence for God, then perhaps your experience might be quite different.
@vanyakalinka8305 Well said! 👏👏👏
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