A Literary Manipulation of Dicken’s “Fantasy” in The Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and the Cricket on the Hearth

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate selected fantasy short stories by Charles Dickens. The study focuses on "impulse for fantasy," which leads Dicken’s readers to a captivating world of other reality. Dickens, as a Victorian figure, had always redefined and defined the fantastic method to expose and probe the world of reality. The imaginary/alternate world therefore shaped, gives expression to its new reality creatively manipulated and adapted to expose the truth of the actual world.