Within the text of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Ebeneezer Scrooge finds redemption, as initiated by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley, and the three spirits who pay Scrooge an unwelcomed visit on Christmas Eve,are central to Dickens' message regarding London's failure to exhibit social responsibility. In Stave One, Scrooge is described as a character with little care ... they would rather die" than go to the cruelly overcrowded prisons and workhouses of 19th century London, "they had better do so, and decrease the surplus population." In "A Christmas Caro...

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