Tara-Lyn Camilleri, ABC; Ebenezer Scrooge and the dynamics of moral transformation: The ethics of Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
"Given that Dickens wrote from within Victorian Christianity, I’ll assume he took for granted some meaningful form of free will, miracles and redemption. I don’t. Yet this Victorian ghost story still cheers me every year. In recent years I’ve found myself examining the popular moral we’ve attached to it — that it’s a story about choosing to do better, against the narrative itself."
