Originally published on December 19, 1843, the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve.
The themes and framework of A Christmas Carol fit neatly into the 21st century-as they have since the publication. The media consultant is an “unredeemable,” collectively deemed by the other ghosts as too far gone to be saved, but the Ghost of Christmas Present is determined. In Briggs, the Ghost of Christmas Present (Will Ferrell) finds his perfect Scrooge, a symbol of contemporary apathy, narcissism, individualism, and capitalism. “So tell your core consumer what the hell they’re fighting for: A fight for morality.”
“Every Facebook-loving Boomer wants to fight a culture war,” Briggs sings. The many, in one early scene, are depicted by the National Association of Christmas Tree Growers, struggling against the rise of artificial Christmas trees and same-day shipping.īriggs takes the stage at a Christmas tree convention to con the trade group members into buying his exorbitant services-and manipulating their customers. In Spirited, that small minority is represented by the Briggs Media Group, which specializes in exploiting human laziness and desperation to sell products, images, candidates-you name it. “Melodramas achieve catharsis by polarizing good and evil.” “It is a melodramatic morality tale made for communities that can neither justify nor condemn the process through which a small minority extracts vast wealth from the labor of the many,” Carens continued. “It is not surprising that A Christmas Carol continues to catch the hearts of cultures founded on and unsettled by socio-economic inequality,” Tim Carens, the director of British Studies at the College of Charleston, told English department blog Folio in 2018.
While the original is firmly rooted in the mid-19th century, its themes translate all too well into the modern day. A Christmas Carol has spawned countless iterations-perhaps because of its bent for redemption and faith in humanity.
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