Call for change: Dickens's attempt to improve society and its subversion by Walt DisneyAt a time when the meaning of Christmas was gradually beginning to change, Charles Dickens, in accordance with these changes , wrote a Christmas story: A Christmas Carol. The news was published six days before the Christmas celebrations of 1843; he was exhausted three days later. Although it is a socially engaged narrative, Dickens's work does not concern itself with trivialities such as the introduction of Christmas cards; Instead, A Christmas Carol focuses on the transformation of beliefs and values ​​within society and strives to contribute to these changes. One hundred and forty years later, the story has been (once again) told: Disney Film Studios presented Mickey's Christmas Carol, an animated children's film. . Despite the cartoon's innocent presentation (depicting famous Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck), it would ironically seem to undermine Dickens's efforts to create a more humanistic society by inserting the orthodox phenomenon of Hell. In order to illuminate the stated topic, this essay will first focus on the transformations depicted in Dickens' short story before examining how Mickey's Christmas Carol would appear to subvert them. The most striking transformation dealt with in A Christmas Carol is, of course, that of Ebenezer. Scrooge. In his essay "Stalking the Figurative Oyster: the Excursive Ideal in A Christmas Carol," Craig Buckwald compares Scrooge's transformation to that of a closed oyster that opens to reveal the beautiful pearl that had been hidden in the rough crust since the beginning. Buckwald supports his theory by drawing attention to the way in which Scrooge abominates his fellow...... middle of paper ......e, Daniel. The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe. London: Joseph Mawman, 1815. Dickens, Charles. A Christmas carol. London: Penguin Group, 2007Education.jhu.edu. Ed. Renee Fuller. 1990. Johns Hopkins University. October 18, 2013 < http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/lifelonglearning/early-childhood/childrens-literature/>Jaffe, Audrey. “Spectacular Sympathy: Visualization and Ideology in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.” » PMLA 109 (1994): 254-65. Mickey's Christmas Carol. Real. Burny Mattinson. Perf. Alan Young, Wayne Allwine and HalSmith. DVD. Walt Disney Productions, 1983. Newey, Vincent. The Writings of Charles Dickens. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004 Yenkins, Ruth. Reclaiming the Myth of Power: Women Writers and the Victorian Spiritual Crisis. London: Associated University Presses, 1995.