Someone here mentioned Mao’s treatment of Puyi and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Scrooge basically gets the Puyi treatment, except with Puyi it took years of meeting with literal human experimentation victims to make him into a comrade, while one night with a trio of ghosts turned Scrooge from a shitty business owner to a “good” business owner.
I am not an expert on Dickens but my suspicion is that he would view the poverty in the world as part of human nature and more or less impossible to undo. I once attempted to read “Bleak House” and my impression there was of a static, rotten-to-the-core, utterly hopeless civilization.
Someone here mentioned Mao’s treatment of Puyi and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Scrooge basically gets the Puyi treatment, except with Puyi it took years of meeting with literal human experimentation victims to make him into a comrade, while one night with a trio of ghosts turned Scrooge from a shitty business owner to a “good” business owner.
I am not an expert on Dickens but my suspicion is that he would view the poverty in the world as part of human nature and more or less impossible to undo. I once attempted to read “Bleak House” and my impression there was of a static, rotten-to-the-core, utterly hopeless civilization.