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4.New Historicism in A Christmas Carols 4.1 Different periods of Scrooge 4.2 Marginalized Characters 4.2.1 Dead Marley 4.2.2 Poor Bob
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Abstract
A Christmas Carols is one of the classic Christmas novels of Charles Dickens, having been loved by people and being passed on the Christmas custom from then on. The novel describes the whole process the protagonist as a mean and unkind miser turns into a generous and kind person, visited by three spirits respectively from the past, the present and the future. Combined with the miserable childhood experience in the Victorian, the thesis also analyses the influence of the three spirits’ visiting and reflects the character of capitalist loving money to death and miserable fate of the poor by new historicism in historicity of texts and textuality of history. This novel not only tells the exploitations which capitalist brings to the poor, but also reveals the truth that human being good by nature. People should be encouraged to get rid of all kinds of temptation and being warm-hearted to help others, which makes us live in the harmonious society.