Explain how the theme of family is used throughout 'A Christmas Carol' written by Charles Dickins (2024)

Throughout 'A Christmas Carol' written by Charles Dickens in 1843, the theme of Family is used in order to illustrate Scrooge's transformation from being: malice, misanthropic and cold to philanthropic and caring. The images of isolation from his family eventually disintegrate and form a new image of love and unity. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is described as "the Ogre of the family", this image allows the reader to understand that Scrooge is unloved and, furthermore, that his family are scared of him as he is seen to be monsterous. However, by the end of the novel Dickens presents Scrooge to be a "second father to Tiny Tim". By using the transformation of the gruesome and ugly image of an Ogre to a paternal figure, Dickens illustrates Scrooges new and invented self.