spirit’ of charity and love for our fellow man. Almost everyone growing up as a kid has read or seen some kind of version of The Christmas Carol during the holidays in the month of December. It is a story about a tightfisted lonely man known as Scrooge who learns to give and receive love which I think we would all agree is more than appropriate for the season. But Dickens’ story has more meaning and as you get deeper into the story you learn that there is a dark reflection on a changing society
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all‚ and ultimately elevated Scrooge. Scrooge was a depraved man “squeezing‚ wrenching‚ grasping‚ scraping‚ clutching‚ covetous old sinner!” majority of the townsfolk would cower at this presence. He based his morality and life purely on money; greed and gain were his most prominent qualities. Love was a mere inkling of what was in Scrooge. His nephew Fred can be described as an outstanding foil to Scrooge‚ Fred was poor but lived a comfortable life; whereas Scrooge was rich and corrupt. “Though
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injustice. In fact‚ through miserly protagonist Ebeneezer Scrooge‚ Dickens manages to use redemption‚ whilst not a dominant theme in itself‚ to reinforce the social values he so firmly believed in. The importance of upholding ones social responsibility‚ of reflection and memory and of generosity and goodwill are all enforced throughout the allegory by the Ghost of Jacob Marley and the Spirits of Christmas he employs to see though Scrooges tri-temporal redemptive process. In thus constructing his
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give to the poor and help others‚ yet these values‚ and ideals were slowly fading in the 19th Century economic change Shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Past‚ was old happy and energetic Fezziwig‚ who he was once apprenticed to when he was young‚ who taught Scrooge to be sharp witted‚ cunning moneylender like himself. The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge back to his young adulthood‚ to relearn the valuable lessons‚ which Fezziwig taught about life‚ that wealth and greed‚ should never
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yet not willing to give to the poor; during this giving season. Scrooge portrays the exact attitude Dickens is disdaining when he says‚ “what is Christmas to you but a time for paying bills without money‚” showing the total misunderstanding of Christmas. Dickens again instructs the audience by teaching Scrooge a vital lesson in generosity‚ through the use of the Ghost of Christmas Past‚ who through careful questioning‚ forces Scrooge to admit that the happiness the Fezziwig generated was “quite as
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morality plays‚ and in A Christmas Carol. Most of the characters in the novella are allegorical. The ghost of Christmas past represents Scrooge’s mind and memory. The ghost is symbolic of how Scrooge became who he was. Scrooge essentially represents everything anti-Christmas; to this day if you call somebody a Scrooge you are saying that they’re against Christmas. Scrooge’s greed and misunderstanding of Christmas is represented by the quote “Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason
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Christmas Carol‚ the character Scrooge symbolizes greed and all the consequences that come along with greed. In this Scrooge is a lonely and unhappy person. Scrooge is set on an emotional journey through the past‚ present and future to find the true qualities of life. The first ghost I’m going to talk about is The Ghost of Christmas Past. This is the Ghost of Christmas Past - Scrooge’s own past. The ghost has a strange changing form and gives out brilliant light. With it Scrooge revisits the scenes of his
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In the novel A Christmas Carol‚ Ebenezer Scrooge is a man who is portrayed as very cold hearted‚ “the cold within him froze his features”. He always kept attention to himself and never cared about anyone else. The whole town knew him as a bad man‚ even “the blindmen’s dogs knew him… and would tug their owners into corners away from him”. Jacob Marley was his partner in life‚ and even though their relationship was for business only‚ he was Scrooge’s only friend. In regret from his own life‚ Marley
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novella ’A Christmas Carol’ was written by Engligh author Charles Dickens in 1843. It sold all 6‚000 copies within 9 days of hitting the stands and was met with instant success and critical acclaim. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his reluctant jouney to find the Christmas Spirit guided by supernatural visitors Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past‚ Present and Yet to Come. The effect the Charles Dickens writings had on this rapidly waneing Christian Festival
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similarities between the drama play and the movie. There are also many differences. In the play‚ Scrooge is a greedy‚ self centered man who cares for nothing but money and himself. His old‚ dead friend and partner‚ Marley‚ visits Scrooge in the night to tell him to change. Marley sends three spirits to haunt Scrooge to enforce that change. Scrooge is shown his past by the Spirit of Christmas Past. Past shows Scrooge a Christmas long ago where he is alone in the school house. “The schoolroom is not quite
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