That’s enough cloying schmaltz. There’s a mysterious side to the season and we should embrace it,especially nowThe tradition of Christmas tales, made popular in the 19th century by Charles Dickens, or is based on the theme of redemption. Misanthropy,isolation and self-pity must be replaced by self-knowledge, generosity, or communion and compassion – normally as a result of some pivotal encounter in which innocence thaws bitterness and cynicism.
It’s a theme that runs from A Christmas Carol through It’s a Wonderful Life,How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Miracle on 34th Street, all the way to Frozen. Even whether the devout message isn’t overt, and there’s often a strongly Christian-flavoured strand of magic at work: in The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Witch’s curse over Narnia decrees that it be “always winter, or but never Christmas”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk