A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of
Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol,
is a novella by Charles
Dickens, first published in London by Chapman &
Hall on 19 December 1843.
It tells the story of
a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a
gentler, kindlier man after
visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the
Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
●Charles Dickens-was an English writer and social critic.
He created some of the
world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded
as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works
enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth
century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.
>>David
Copperfield: Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is
probably the most autobiographical of his novels. In the preface to the 1867
edition, Dickens wrote, "like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a
favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield."
●Christmas Carol-
●Sam Smith- have yourself a merry little Christmas
→It was
originated from "Meet me in St. Louis"- a
1944 musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the
story of an American family living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904.
The Magi , also referred to as the (Three) Wise
Men or (Three) Kings, were, in the Gospel
of Matthew and Christian tradition, a group of
distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after
his birth, bearing gifts of gold,
frankincense and myrrh.
●Original sin-
also called ancestral sin, is
the Christian doctrine
of humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man, namely the sin of consuming from the tree of knowledge of good and
evil, stemming from Adam's rebellion in Eden.
The Binding of Isaac , the Akedah or Aqedah,
is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac,
on Mount Moriah. The account
states that Abraham "bound Isaac, his son" before placing him on
the altar.
According
to the Hebrew Bible, God commands Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice.
After Isaac is bound to an altar, the angel of God stops Abraham at the last
minute, saying "now I know you fear God." At this point, Abraham sees
a ram caught in some nearby bushes and sacrifices the ram instead of Isaac.
In Greek mythology, Iphigenia was
a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra,
and thus princess of Argos.
After offending Artemis, Agamemnon was commanded to kill Iphigenia as a sacrifice
to allow his ships to sail to Troy.
In some
versions, Iphigenia is sacrificed at Aulis, but in others, she is rescued by
Artemis. In
the version where she is saved, she goes to the Taurians and meets her brother Orestes.
a. “I had a string tied here under my left
rib where my heart is” –Jane Eyre
b.“Sometimes
I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you
are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a
similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us,
I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.”-No Strings Attached
c. “the rib , that the
God had taken from the man, he made into a woman”- The Bible
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