Butter December-06-12 In the book A Christmas Carol‚ by Charles Dickens‚ the main character‚ Scrooge‚ has many experiences with new emotions throughout the book. These new emotions are fear‚ sadness and happiness. Scrooge gets scared when Marley‚ his old business partner‚ who has been dead for seven years‚ appears as a ghost at his door. Scrooge got so frightened the he slammed his door shut and double locked it. Scrooge was also visited by the ghost of Christmas past and Scrooge is
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Scrooge‚ a cold-hearted creditor‚ which continues his greedy ways on Christmas Eve. He rejects a Christmas dinner invitation‚ from his nephew fred he yells at charity workers; and he overworks his employed bob . At night‚ Scrooge’s former partner Jacob marley ‚ dead for a long time‚ visits him in the form of a ghost. Marley’s spirit has been wandering since he died as punishment for being stingy and greedy throughout his life. He has come to warn Scrooge and perhaps save him from a similar fate. He
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“Mankind is my business!” said the ghost of Jacob Marley. Error and redemption was a main theme expressed by Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol. Through Scrooge‚ Charles Dickens portrayed the redemption of a miserly moneylender in an attempt to revive the Christmas Spirit. Through the Christmas Carol‚ Dickens clearly expressed the idea that humankind should be everyone’s business‚ and that those without the Christmas Spirit should recognize their errors and achieve redemption. In the Story‚ Ebenezer
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that they can still be saved no matter how horrible of a deed they have done. Scrooge is redeemed in Charles Dickenson’s Christmas Carol with the help of 3 spirits and a dead business partner. First Marley affected Scrooge greatly. He slowly scared him into believing that he was real. Marley came to scrooge in a frightening way by showing him his face as a door knocker‚ he showed him a locomotive hearse climbing the steps beside him‚ the carvings on the mantle piece changed to Marley’s face‚
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security into Scrooge’s brain (Morris 4). The Ghosts of Christmas made Scrooge relive all his hardships growing up in order to help him move on. They succeeded because Scrooge realized that if he didn’t change his lifestyle‚ he’d end up like Jacob Marley‚ “dead as a door-nail” (Dickens 1). Ebenezer Scrooge was an outcast; however‚ he was not evil. Ebenezer Scrooge’s root problem was not fully understanding society. He did not see the worth of Christmas and treated it like he would any other
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established archetype. What traits spring to mind? The Traits that spring to mind when I look at this picture are that he doesn’t seem like a very pleasant person‚ and is angry at something. 2. Read the sign in this photograph. Scrooge’s partner‚ Jacob Marley‚ is dead when the drama begins. How do moneylenders make money? Moneylenders are someone who offers small personal loans at high rates of interest. 3. These photos capture two different facial expressions. How does each actor use his face to
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it with their families. He was just a miserly old man‚ who believed that Christmas was just an excuse for people who wanted to miss work and for idle people to expect handouts. Jacob Marley‚ was Scrooge’s business partner and the first to visit him with ‘‘No rest‚ no peace. Incessant torture of remorse’’ (p15). Marley wanted to warn him to stop living his life in an unchristian way; otherwise he will have to spend his death after life paying for what he has done
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many 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
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approached by Marley’s ghost he was exposed to his former business partner’s consequence. His spirit wore the “chain (he) forged in life”‚ a chain linked by the “dealings of (his) trade… a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of (his) business”. Marley and Scrooge’s ideals were parallel; they were hand in hand business
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(Dickens 36). This quote refers to as the chains being something scary or something to be frightful of. The chains make it sound like they represent sins and the harmful things in life. When Marley visits Scrooge‚ he tells him that he should change his lifestyle and not make the same mistakes as Marley. Therefore‚ Scrooge is visited by three spirits who help him seek a better way of
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