Christmas Song Essay -- Analysis, Christmas Carol

To some(prenominal) people a torrid crackling fervour brings about memories of the Christmas season. By listening to some of the Christmas carols run awayed throughout the festive holiday season, it is blowsy to pick up on this. In one such Christmas carol, they touch chestnuts roasting on an open fire in this line fire is the provider of warmth light, and good spirits. By roasting the chestnuts the fire gives forage and allows people to share with one another in a warm comfortable atmosphere. A second popular Christmas carol that mentions fire it let it Snow. In this song, one of the main verses is Oh, the weather outside is frightful, just the fire is so delightful, And since weve no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. In this verse fire is representative of the winter meter and gives delight, along with warmth and light, to the person singing the song. Light is something that goes hand in hand with the Christmas holiday, but something that is not a common thought when it comes to Christmas is darkness. The exercising of fire and light also holds true for Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol. Before the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirits of his seven long time dead business partner Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts of Christmass past, present, and future, he despises Christmas and everything about it, some forcing his clerk, Bob Cratchit to work Christmas day. Even his always sunlightful nephew Fred cannot seem to good fortune through the hatred. But while Scrooge worked as an apprentice for Mr. Fezziwig, the hatred was not present. But through the series of events that happened in his life. Scrooge grew to abhor the whole Christmas season. After he is shown what will happen to him if he doesnt change his ways, Scrooge wakes up the ne... ...Christmas Carol reflects how lots love and kindliness of spirit are present among people the greater the good cheer the brighter the scene, the more greed, self-centeredness, or h ostility, the more absolute the darkness. An example discussed in the tonic was the amount of light and therefore, spirit, love and generosity, present in the moor where the miners work. In contrast to the miners light, was the somberness surrounding Scrooge out front he was visited by the three ghosts. Although Scrooge was surrounded by murkiness, greed and self-centeredness before the ghosts visited him, by the time he went to his nephew Freds party there much more light, love and generosity present. Fire light and warmth play an important role in The Christmas Carol but darkness and gloom play an equally important role in representing the characteristics of people in the scene.