The new Ryan Reynolds-Will Ferrell adaptation 'Spirited' is the latest in a long line of iterations of the Dickens classic
, a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaches the novella to her students.The Well. “Dickens was trying to capture quintessential questions about human fellowship that we’re still concerned with now.”
While the appetite for stories about humanity persists, so too will an audience for ghost stories. The Victorians Christmas, one of the longest nights of the year, with darkness and ghosts—which lent itself to magic and fairy tales.“He caught that almost crystalline structure of the fairy tale that makes it easy to grasp,” Langbauer said of Dickens. “But infinitely malleable and important for what it captures about psychology as well as culture.”lies in the fact that—in the world Dickens builds—redemption remains possible for everyone.
“We know that things will work out from the beginning with a narrator who’s genial, really avuncular, a kind of expansive narrator who makes jokes and has a worldview that tells us this is a world in which people are sometimes not kind, but kindness is still the most important thing,” Langbauer said. “People want to continue to believe that they live in that kind of world, especially during the dark days each year.
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