A Christmas Carol Group

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ayshafirdouse
ayshafirdouse
Student
High School - 10th Grade

In the drama "A Christmas Carol,"the second ghost remarks that he has "over eighteen hundred brothers."  What does he mean by that?

It is said by the second ghost...

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Posted by ayshafirdouse on Saturday September 19, 2009 at 12:23 AM and tagged with ghost of christmas present, quotes, themes.

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  1. lhc
    lhc Teacher
    Middle School

    eNotes Editor

    The Ghost of Christmas Present is referring to the approximately 1800 Christmases that have come and gone since the birth of Christ, leading up to the point where Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in the mid-1800's.  Interestingly, it is the period of Victorian England that produced many of the cultural hallmarks of today's American Christmas celebration, including the Christmas tree, of course, which was borrowed from Germany.  Ironic that the same time period in England that produced so many of the secular and commercial aspects of our Christmas traditions also produced a writer, Dickens, who was able to articulate through his fictional work what the true meaning of Christmas was and should remain. 

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    Posted by lhc on Saturday September 19, 2009 at 5:15 PM