3. CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM
DICKENS
7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870.
English writer and social critic
the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.
Born in Portsmouth.
Dickens left school to work in a factory
after his father was thrown into debtors' prison.
Elizabeth Dickens, 8 children
On 8 June 1870
4. MAJOR TOPICS
The story deals with two of Dickens'
recurrent themes, social injustice and poverty.
Scrooge embodies selfishness and
indifference to the poor.
5. CHARACTERS
Ebenezer Scrooge.
Jacob Marley
The ghost of christmas past.
The ghost of christmas present.
the ghost of christmas future.
Bob Cratchit.