For page 2 of your packet
12/12/2014
• Definition: main idea or an
underlying meaning of a literary
work that may be stated directly or
indirectly
• The themes in the story are still
relevant today!
Theme
Purpose
Hope (for Victorian England)
Change
Moral responsibility and duty to
mankind
Important values
The possibility of change and
redemption
Scrooge
Man’s offences carry their own
punishment
Scrooge and Marley
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