A Christmas Carol began with Dickenss idea of issuing a pamphlet in response to horrific accounts of child labour in mines and factories. From the orphan begging for more in Oliver Twist to the heartless Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. In his journalism and novels he attacked specific targets - Poor Law legislation in Oliver Twist, the brutal Yorkshire schools in Nicholas Nickleby, the law [Pickwick Papers and Bleak House], government bureaucracy, lethargy and nepotism in Little Dorrit, extremist utilitarianism in Hard Times. The Christmas Carol is perhaps the most dramatic and poignant of these tales A tale to make the reader laugh and cry – to open his hands, and open his heart to charity... it influenced a huge cultural shift towards a more compassionate society, for a time, and resurrected a form of seasonal merriment that had been suppressed by the Puritan quelling of Yuletide pageantry in 17th-century England. The Occupy movement is an international protest movement against social and economic inequality, its primary goal being to make the economic structure and power relations in society fairer. Local groups often have different foci, but among the movements prime concerns is the claim that large corporations and the global financial system control the world in a way that disproportionately benefits a minority, undermines democracy and is unstable In terms of my film I included the brie Occupy scene to both highlight the current movement to challenge economic injustice and inhumanity, as well as to introduce the other themes of my version of this tale, that the Christmas themes themselves derive from earlier pagan and community minded traditions. For any interested in the causes of Occupy, i cannot recommend highly enough Naomi Kleins groundbreaking expose Shock Doctrine; The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism. Blessed Be Everybody ~ Austerity in the Uk, plan ahead, Occupy Christmas By Dickens!! A short film after Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol but inspired by earlier Pagan and Community spirited traditions of the Yuletide. https://youtube/watch?v=S9SBebs3A5I
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:41:25 +0000
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