Disney’s A Christmas Carol is a fable for this time–the Great Recession, when Wall Street money lenders, Scrooges in Armani suits, are multiplying their stash and breeding Ignorance and Want ...

In tracking the critical reception of “A Christmas Carol,” Hearn quotes extensively ... (including those two demonic children, Ignorance and Want), full of singing and dancing (Fezziwig ...

That goes double for a period piece like the 1840s-set “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens ... where she sets the skeletal specters Ignorance and Want on Scrooge: “This boy is Ignorance.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to raise awareness of some of ... hidden under his robes. They are called Ignorance and Want. The ghost explains that the children belong to mankind.