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A Christmas Carol: Ebenezer Scrooge
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A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth. He holds anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season.
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Of all the affecting scenes from A Christmas Carol none touches the heart more than the death of the crippled Tiny Tim, foreshadowed to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, especially to Victorian readers. Large families and child mortality were common in the 19th century and many readers may have suffered firsthand the loss of a child.
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A Christmas Carol is back for its 18th smash year! Last year this production broke its own box office records. It is one of the most important stories we tell all season long, and it is one that families experience together year after year. It serves as an annual reminder that no matter how old we get, no matter how hopeless a moment may seem, there is always the capacity for change and renewal. The human soul is a resilient and remarkable thing, and Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from greedy miser to openhearted benefactor serves as a yearly example of all humans’ capacity for goodness and generosity.
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A Christmas Carol (1999) - This production starring Patrick Stewart is the first to incorporate computer-generated graphics. These are used most effectively in the scene where the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge on a whirlwind visit to a lighthouse, a ship at sea, and a group of miners.
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According to the Ghost of Christmas Present, Tim would die within a year. The fact that he did not die, due to Scrooge's new-found generosity, means that the disease was treatable with proper medical care. Dr. Lewis consulted medical textbooks of the mid 1800's and found that Tim's symptoms would have been treated with alkaline solutions which would counteract the excess acid in his blood and recovery would be rapid.
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Scrooge tries in vain to calm himself by his fireplace late the Christmas Eve after his encounter with the first unearthly visitor, Marley's Ghost. Out of the silence of the night appears the second of the spirits. Scrooge pleads with the Ghost to show him mercy.
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