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A Christmas Carol as a social critique
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A Christmas Carol as a social critique
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His nephew was wanting him to come to Christmas but he said he didn’t like Christmas. In the text it states,”... finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer…” This means that Scrooge wants more money, so that means he’s
The ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge his young self with a woman who is crying. The woman talks to him about how he loves money more than her. The woman says her final goodbye to Scrooge, after their conversation, then leaves for good. Scrooge starts to yell at his young self telling him to not let her leave but the younger Scrooge can not hear him. Scrooge then begs to leave but the ghost of Christmas Past says “I have told you these were shadows of the things that have been.
Scrooge was also a rude and mean person, who hated Christmas. He was a bad person but when he changed he did not change as much as the Grinch. Scrooge is a rich mean old man, who was given a chance to change, be his nephew inviting him to a Christmas party, or people going around asking for money to donate, but he never did any of that. While the Grinch didn't have an opportunity to change when everyone hated him, and even when he was invited to something, and started to change, they played sick jokes on him. Scrooge could have changed but he didn't, the Grinch only had one chance to change, and he took it.
The play “Christmas Carol” includes three spirits that visit Scrooge that change him in some way. The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of the Future are all similar because of their main motive, to change Scrooge. For example, Scrooge says “ Remove me! I cannot bear it.” The Ghost of Christmas Past had shown memories that were haunting Scrooge, which Scrooge had tried to forget them in the past.
So, now he was a much kinder person. Before the Scrooge met the three ghosts he was a careless and ungrateful person. But when the Ghost of Christmas Future
Landon Kiely Mrs. Shearer Language Arts - 7A 30 January 2023 Scrooge Character Analysis Is there someone who hoards money and is very cheap? Well, that person is Scrooge from the play, A Christmas Carol by Israel Horovitz, Scrooge is a very successful businessman who cherishes the money he makes so much that he refuses to do anything to help others. Mean and disrespectful, Scrooge even underpays and mistreats his employee, Bob Cratchit. His dead business partner, Jacob Marley, comes back to haunt him in hopes of changing Scrooge’s character. If Scrooge does not change his ways, he is doomed and will be trapped by his earthly sins for eternity.
He loses his best friend and business partner Jacob Marley. As a ghost, Jacob Marley sends different ghosts to send Scrooge through the past, present and future showing him different scenarios that make him regret his past actions. My main point is that Scrooge changed from an mean perspn to a cheerful person. Firstly, a lot of people know how Scrooge has treated people. He treats a lot of people
In this dialogue, the Gentleman Visitor is astounded that Scrooge was able to change. Before, he was cruel and bitter to everyone. This had to be revised. After the ghosts appeared to Scrooge and he viewed three forms of Christmas, he realized how his actions were drastically affecting others so he changed and became
“A Christmas Carol Open Response Question” In the story “ A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, the behavior of Scrooge changes from the beginning of the story to the end. In the beginning, Scrooge was a very selfish person who didn’t care about anyone but himself. When Marley’s Ghost came, he learned that there will be three other ghosts that are going to visit him, and that he needs to change his behavior fast. Also, after the Ghost of Christmas Past arrives, he takes Scrooge to a warehouse where Scrooge was an apprentice and was reminded of how great he was treated then they went to Belle’s house where he learned that he cared about his money more than his girlfriend.
Marley tells scrooge that three other ghosts are going to come to Scrooge home, and leaves after telling Scrooge to change his ways before it's hurts him. Scrooge thinks nothing of this and thinks it a illness, but as Marley said, he would get visited from one of the Ghost of Christmas that is named Past. This ghost takes scrooge down memory lane of his childhood memories and Scrooge sadly begins sob when he think about his past as a boy. The past also features events from Scrooge's young adulthood, when he transforms into the rude miser that he ends up being after rejecting his wife and not learning the lessons of kindness taught by Fezziwig, the man he was apprenticed to.
The Display of Scrooge’s Change It is very important that an author does a good job displaying his characters and their changes in the story. Charles Dickens does a great job showing us that Scrooge is not a static character in A Christmas Carol. Dickens displays his change using descriptions of Scrooge and through his actions before and after his Christmas experience.
Scrooge's attitude to giving changes from Stave 1 to Stave 5. In Stave 1, Bob Cratchitt requests Christmas day off of work, to which Scrooge responds by saying it 'isn't fair', nor 'convenient'. This shows that he does not care for his employees' wishes and is against the idea of Christmas being a good excuse to not work. The fact that the majority of people don't work on Christmas Day shows that, despite his opinion differing from the predominance of people, he doesn't succumb to regular conventions and isn't manipulated at all. This promotes him to be an independent, lonely character which is also inferred at the beginning of the book where Dickens uses a rhetorical question to ask 'but what did Scrooge care?'.
When Scrooge looks at his past he gets a tear on his cheek. When the ghost took him to his school, Scrooge starts to become sad. When his Sister picks him up from school he realizes his father doesn’t actually hate him. Scrooge realizes how bad he treated people when he was at the Fezzywig’s. When the Ghost of Christmas past comes to visit Scrooge, Scrooge gets emotional.
In A Christmas Carol, Dickens tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a man who was once a miserable, greedy man, now quite the opposite. During an unexpected visit from his diseased partner, Jacob Marley, he was told that he would be visited by three ghosts: The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. These ghosts would then take him, one at a time, on portions of a journey of redemption to explore the time periods of which their names suggest, each altering his personality. In the end, Scrooge turns out to be a very happy man, much in contrast to his original self. The people he sees during his journey, being secondary characters, are the main cause of Scrooge’s dramatic alteration.
The book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, is about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge gets visited by three ghosts who help him change for the better. One of the ghosts was The Ghost of Christmas Present. The ghost of Christmas Present is a cheerful, positive, and frank giant whose attitude effected a change in scrooge. The Ghost of Christmas Present is a very cheerful person.
