Everything about the way Shelley structured this novel forces the reader to exercise his own sense of compassion. The first half of the novel makes us think we know who the creature is, and when we find out we wer…
…rge scale, as in, the whole-of-his-life scale, all of us must learn and relearn on a smaller scale. We may not be miserly old fools who are reviled by entire communities like Scrooge is, but we all struggle with bitterness, anger, and misery at times. We all, like Scrooge, have our reasons. Dig deep enough in our own Ghosts of Christmas Past and we’…