The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Synopsis

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is the last novel of Christmas stories written by the Great novelist of England Charles Dickens, whose other popular Christmas story is A Christmas Carol. The Haunted Man narrates the importance of remembering one’s past sorrows, not for self-pity, but to realize pains of others and helping them.

Professor Redlaw, a chemistry teacher always brood over the sorrow of his sister’s death during his childhood. He is really a noble man and always loves others and helps them in difficult situations. His spiritual thoughts lead him to be communicated by his twin ghost, which gives a gift. The ghost says this gift can makes him to forget all his sorrows and he has to handover the gift to others also.

After this incident, he forgets all his sorrows, but unfortunately his nobility and kindness has gone away from him. Even worse whoever receives the gift also loses their kindness, except one women Milly who lost her child. Rest of the story is narrated about reversing the gift. The story finally teaches the moral of; we must remember our past sorrows not to take vengeance against those responsible for the curse, but to forgive them and also to help others who are cursed by similar one.

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