else greedy‚ lonely‚ or sad. Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol is about Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghost of Jacob Marley. Ebenezer Scrooge was a lonely and greedy man‚ similar to Jacob Marley. Jacob Marley was Scrooge’s business partner before he passed away. The play and the movie of A Christmas Carol have both many similarities and very little differences. In the play‚ the Ghost of Christmas Past showed Scrooge what he was like in the past. In the past‚ Scrooge’s father did not like him because
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story‚ Rikki-Tikki Tavi by: Rudyard Kipling‚ two of the characters‚ Nag and Nargiana are greedy. As in the story Hershel and the Hanukkah candles by: Eric Kimmel two goblins are. Also in the play A Christmas Carol by: Charles Dickens‚ a man named Scrooge is greedy as well. The main message in all three short stories/plays is nothing good ever comes out of being greedy. In these stories being greedy has a negative outcome for all the characters. In the stories the greedy characters think that they
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Carol” The story will not leave us‚ but will “haunt” us “pleasantly” as Dickens hoped. We are experiencing this by exploring the ways that emotions of main character‚ Ebenezer Scrooge‚ change during reading “A Christmas Carol”. Charles Dickens uses a lot of adjectives and many similes in order to present a clear image of what Scrooge looks like‚ as well as his personality‚ and this is before we have ever met him: “Hard and sharp as flint‚ from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire. The cold
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as an allegory to remind each other the lessons that the three spirits of Christmas teach Ebenezer Scrooge. First of all‚ the purpose of the apparition of the three spirits is to give Ebenezer Scrooge the lessons about the true meaning of being human‚ the valuable of each individual and the importance of society. At the end of the story‚ the reader can recognize that the lessons live within Scrooge until the end. Second‚ the physical appearances of each spirit all have their own meaning and all
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Christmas 1843 approached. And beyond his own worries‚ Dickens was keenly attuned to the profound misery of the working poor in England. A visit to the grimy industrial city of Manchester motivated him to tell the story of a greedy businessman‚ Ebenezer Scrooge‚ who would be transformed by the Christmas spirit. (http://history1800s.about.com/od/authors/a/Christmas-Carol-By-Dickens.htm) Autobiography: Born to a poor family in Portsmouth‚ England on February 7‚ 1812‚ Charles John Huffam Dickens would
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similarities and a few differences between the two renditions‚ none of which are plot changing‚ or quite so dramatic. Some such similarities are the characters. That includes old Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge himself‚ who is‚ the enemy of Christmas‚ and the main character of both readings. The plot in which Scrooge is visited by the spirits of Christmas past‚ present‚ and future‚ as foretold by his deceased partner‚ Jacob Marley‚ is also no different than the
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The novel‚ A Christmas Carol‚ uses the supernatural to change a man’s view over life dramatically. Scrooge seemed to be a pleasant man up until his business partner died. Scrooge and Jacob Marley owned somewhat of a large business that consisted of a counting house. Jacob Marley died on a Christmas eve which reminds Scrooge of his death every Christmas. Although Scrooge’s attitude couldn’t be changed by the average person‚ it would require a few ghosts to “save” him. Charles Dickens shows within
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the poor were housed‚ fed and set to work‚ had by this time become the most common form of relief available to Londoners . Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy old man who has no Christmas spirit in him. He is visited by his dead business partner‚ Jacob Marley who tell him because of his way of life on earth has doomed him to roam the earth in chains forever‚ he tells Scrooge that if he does
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Dickens presents Fred as a cheerful‚ humble and generous character within the novella as a contrast to Scrooge’s cold and stingy character. As shown in the extract‚ Fred is ‘Cheerful’ and ‘handsome’ whereas Scrooge is ‘self-contained’ and his features were ‘shrivelled’ by the ‘cold’ (Stave 1). Fred is the son of Scrooge’s beloved but deceased sister‚ he is the only living relative and person who wants to pull him out of isolation and back into the world. Dickens was focused on Scrooge’s complicated
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christmas and how they are linked. And dickens builds a strong message abouit chirstmas and poverty in the 1914 and how the richman helps the poorman. And even though the poor have no money they still have a good chirstmas.The main character‚ Ebeneezer Scrooge‚ starts off having no feelings for others or any Christmas spirit‚ but changes from his gloomy‚ dark appearance to a carefree‚child-like person at the end. Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth‚ where his father was a clerk in the navy
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