Same story, different versions. This can make the audience understand the story much better. A Christmas Carol is a novel written by Charles Dickens and it is well known all around the world. The story is about Scrooge and the visit of three ghosts that will change Scrooge´s life forever. Israel Horovitz and Henry Edwards made an adaption of this fantastic story. One is a play and the other is a short film. Both versions are very similar and different at the same time. Let´s start analyzing the characters. Like it is supposed, Scrooge is the principal character. Scrooge appears as a serious and angry man in both versions, the ghosts in the film are pretty much the same as how the play explains. For example, the ghost in the film is very large