what moral lesson do you learn from the drama ''Christmas Carol '' especially about the change of behavior in scrooge before and after meeting the three ghosts of past, present and future ?
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The book’s main moral or theme has to do with the importance of helping others when one is able to do so. Ever since he was a young man, Scrooge has placed more importance on acquiring riches than friends or loved ones. In fact, his love of money chased away the one love of his life. Perhaps Scrooge, having been abandoned at school as a young boy by an apparently unkind father, simply wanted to hold onto something that he knew would never abandon him, and so he develops an attachment to gold. In any case, instead of using his vast fortune to help others, or even enjoying it himself, he simply hoards it away for the sake of having it.
When he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business associate, Jacob tries to impress upon Scrooge how important it is to help others while he still can, that helping others is the only way to decrease the length and weight of the chain he has forged for all these years. When Jacob's ghost flies out the window, Scrooge cannot help but watch, and he sees a terrible sight:
The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost; [...] none were free [...]. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a doorstep. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.
I have placed the last sentence of this quotation in bold because it is the most strongly linked to your question. These spirits, now dead, exist in a type of hell that is made unbearable by their inability to help a struggling human being. They want, desperately, to help the poor mother, but they cannot, and it makes them miserable. Thus, we begin to see that one of the text's main messages is to help us to learn the importance, above all else, of helping our fellows whenever we can.
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