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Thread: Did Scrooge fall from grace?
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22nd December 2010, 04:11 PM #1
Jim
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Did Scrooge fall from grace?
I was listening to Radio National (I think) the other day and the speaker was expressing surprise that Scrooge is only really remembered for his meanness and not for his subsequent transformation to all round do-gooder.
I prefer the old Scrooge and find his born-again persona somewhat sickening.
I can't be the only one, can I?
Cheers and bah humbug,
Jim
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22nd December 2010, 05:49 PM #2
Caritas et veritas!
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I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
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22nd December 2010, 06:49 PM #3
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22nd December 2010, 07:50 PM #4
You find the transcript here Philosophers Zone - 18 December 2010 - Bah humbug - Why Ebenezer Scrooge is actually a man of principle
I also detest moralising and Dickens was very full on. Seems to me that the battle for defining the "good" man was just as hard fought in the 19thC as it is now. Scrooge behaves like a good MBA graduate or Treasurer like Peter Costello. The revised Scrooge a bit more like Tim Costello. I know who I would rather have a beer with."We must never become callous. When we experience the conflicts ever more deeply we are living in truth. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." - Albert Schweizer
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22nd December 2010, 10:14 PM #5
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Dickens may well have been a moraliser but he was also and advocate of social reform, and I gues that is the source of his moralising. He was a champion of education. He wanted all to be educated and he wanted the existing "system" and its curriculum changed so it was more relevant.
Some people, self include, find Dickens a bit tedious to read but much of his work was written in serial form form for newspapers and so he had ample room for expansion and description.
I digress. I happen to have an admiration for the original Scrooge and his villains always had something endearing in their character.
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22nd December 2010, 10:42 PM #6
I thought we were talking about Scrooge McDuck!
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23rd December 2010, 06:23 AM #7
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Overblown sentimentality seemed to be exceedingly popular at the time. I gather his public readings would have grown men in tears at the descriptions of deathbed scenes of characters like Smike. Doubtless they often went back to running their sweatshops without making a connection.
Cheers,
Jim
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23rd December 2010, 07:33 AM #8
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23rd December 2010, 09:57 AM #9
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