A Christmas Carol Musical and Play
Dickens' personal observation in the lives of the poor children in London during the Victorian England and the chasm in between the major number of poor and the minor umber of the rich few spurred the inspiration in writing this world-class prose that would be hailed the most enduring Christmas story more than a century later.
A Christmas Carol revolves around Ebenezer Scrooge, who at present can be described as a top-notch miser, had an existence basically mounted on his financial bounty detests Christmas for the amount people spent in celebrating it.
However, Scrooge's glorious reformation came in the form of a ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley, who informed that the life of a miser would bring great consequences in the afterlife. This spawned the complete reformation of the miser Scrooge into a benevolent, giving and compassionate individual.
A Christmas Carol was a sensation in its own right when it first came out selling six thousand copies during the first week but its popularity grew that lasted to these days. Although the, financial return of this publication was considered low as each copy was originally sold only at 5 shillings.
Just as piracy is the biggest enemy of publication in this twenty-first century, A Christmas Carol also suffered under the same enemies, with pirated copies spewing from nowhere that got the author spending more to fight against the pirated publication of his masterpiece.
With the timeless tale of human redemption, A Christmas Carol continues to inspire the true spirit of Christmas and evokes the very reason of its existence which Dickens' aptly described in his book 'It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when it's mighty founder was a child himself.'