A Christmas Dinner By Charles Dickens

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

»Christmas Festivities« is a novella by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1835. CHARLES DICKENS [1812–1870], born in Portsmouth, England, was the most popular English-language novelist of his time. He created a fictional world that reflected the social and technological changes during the Victorian era. Among his most famous works are David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and The Pickwick Papers.

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 1, Dublin City University, language: English, abstract: These two texts are descriptions of Christmas dinners. The first one is a literary one, an excerpt taken out of Charles Dickens’ novel “A Christmas Carol”, first published in 1843. The second one is an introduction to a collection of recipes in an online blog by Nigella Lawson from 2012. Even though it might seem at first that they are quite similar texts as they are both about the same specific event, there are a lot of differences to be found. This essay will discuss the differences and similarities between the two texts and analyse and compare them using a number of theories of textual analysis: Karl Bühler’s Organon Model, Paul Grice’s Conversational Maxims, and Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hassan’s Context of Situation. It should be noted that even when the vocabulary used has a slightly negative connotation, for example flouting or lack of, this in no way means that one text is superior to the other or that the aspect mentioned is in fact a negative one. The vocabulary used is only to describe and analyse, not to judge the two texts.

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ most famous book and arguably the world’s most read Christmas story. Here, we follow Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly and mean-spirited businessman, who undergoes a total transformation and becomes a kind person after being haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve. It is one of the great classics of world literature, here accompanied by other classics from Dickens’ Christmas repertoire, like A Christmas Tree and The Seven Poor Travellers. CHARLES DICKENS [1812–1870], born in Portsmouth, England, was the most popular English-language novelist of his time. He created a fictional world that reflected the social and technological changes during the Victorian era. Among his most famous works are David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and The Pickwick Papers.

A Dickens Dinner, a music and rhymes performance, it is a dinner theater play that has known to raise money for charities and nonprofit companies. A Dickens Dinner theater event is based upon characters written into a novella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens in 1843. Audience for A Dickens Dinner, those who attended are entertained by actors, singers, magicians, strolling violinists, mimes, still-walkers and Christmas carolers who provide entertainment between each dinner course. During dinner, merrymakers pretend to send cranky, miserly Scrooge reeling in his grave, while they serve dinner and humorous poetry, while handing out poultry, fish, side dishes and English desserts during holidays.