The message that Dickens is communicating through Marley is that you must be a good person while alive, or else it will hurt you in the afterlife. Marley tells Scrooge, “Or would you know the weight of the strong coil you bear yourself” (Dickens, Pg 22). In this part of the stave, Marley has appeared to Scrooge wearing a chain of wrongs that he has committed in his mortal life, that are hurting him in his afterlife. Marley is telling this to Scrooge because Scrooge’s “chain” is greater than Marley’s, because of all of the wrongs that he has committed. He also tells Scrooge that their chains were the same length when Marley died, but Scrooge’s chain has expanded greatly since then.
As the spirt begins to show Ebenezer the young boy and girl, he develops an appalled look upon him. Dickens describes the two as a “yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish” looking. The Spirt explains to Scrooge that the two below his robe belong to Man. That the boy represented Ignorance and the girl Want. The Spirt begins to warn him of the boy, “…for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased…”
At the beginning of A Christmas Carol,Scrooge is mean,selfish,and greedy. He is mean, because on pg.9, he never donates to the poor,and he always yells at little kids. Scrooge is also selfish because on pg.12, he never pays a day wages for no work. They say “it's a poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of december!”Also,another word is he is greedy,on pg.17, says he is caustic and cold as ever and never gave anything to anyone. He said “what do you want with me.
Christmas Greed Greed is the one thing that everyone in the world has in common. Greed can cause cause someone to be selfish and hurt those around them as a result. Bad greed causes people and others around them to get hurt. Greed can change a person’s personality.
Scrooge's transformation Do you belive that there is a certain thing that can make anybody change? Can people be forgiven for anything that they have done? In the text and play “A Christmas Carol” we have the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge who has had a tough time during his childhood and early adulthood.
Although skeptical in the beginning, Scrooge begins to understand why he must change his ways, and he discovers what he can do to become a better person. Throughout most of the first chapter, Scrooge is very greedy. When two kind men come and ask Scrooge for a small donation to help benefit the poor Scrooge asks if any of the prisons or poorhouses are still in operation, and the men tell him: “Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.” To which Scrooge replies with: “If they rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” Scrooge was already being greedy by not giving money to the men, but he was also being extremely rude by saying people should hurry up and die.
In ‘A Christmas Carol’, Dickens presents Ignorance and Want in a metaphorical fashion, depicting them as children. This is done in such a manner as to shock and appall the reader, leading to greater emotional investment. Throughout the extract’s entirety, Ignorance and Want are depicted as children, increasing the atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds them. Dickens describes the manner in which the Ghost of Christmas Present “brought two children” – by describing Ignorance and Want as “children”, Dickens creates the impression of innocence, vulnerability, and weakness.
In Chapter two of Edelman ‘No Future’ (2004) ‘sinthomosexulaity’, Edelman examines Ebenezer Scrooge in the Christmas Carol (1843). Scrooge’s character plays no attention to the political economy of reproduction not following the normative social subjects. Scrooge becomes pressured by society in order to change which puts pressures on his queerness, Edelman expresses ‘Christmas here stands in the place of the obligatory collective reproduction of the Child, the obligatory investment in the social precisely as the order of the child’ (Edelman, 2004: 45). Thus, Edelman proposes that he supports the acts that Scrooge is making because he likes that he is anti-social and it is suggested that he goes as far as to praise Ebenezer Scrooge’s original
Response to Literature Never has there been such a soul as Ebenezer Scrooge. A man who treasured wealth and money above all else; even during the Christmas season. All the holiday cheer made old Scrooge more bitter than ever, because of this, Scrooge received a visit from Jacob Marley his dead business partner and three spirits that night, the night of Christmas Eve. First, the ghost of Christmas past. Second, the ghost of Christmas present, and lastly, the ghost of Christmas yet to come.
“Treat others the way you would like to be treated” A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens, is a novel that is intended to teach the reader the importance of treating each other, they way one would want to be treated. Scrooge is a type of guy that doesn’t care about anyone, and doesn’t even give money towards charity and he is certain that those who are needed are just lazy bums looking for a handout. Mostly he just spend his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone so that he could just have some peace and quiet. . Scrooge was always treating his nephew Fred the wrong way even if it hurt his feelings or he didn’t even mean it, Scrooge didn’t care he just wanted to be left alone. Though Scrooge would do
This joy that his old boss, Mr. Fezziwig, creates is much greater than Scrooge’s fortune that he had lost all for. Scrooge describes this as, “light or burdensome” and “pleasure or a toil” which is rather surprising coming out of a man who had before said some intolerable things. This demonstrates the first few beams of hope for Scrooge. From a different point of view, Scrooge realizes that the happiness Scrooge received from Mr. Fezziwig, was much valuable than money, and for once, it was something Scrooge could not buy. “ ‘It matters
At the beginning of the novel “A Christmas carol” Scrooge can be interpreted as an archetypal villain (an extreme stereotype of a villain), this is inferred when Dickens describes Scrooge as an “old sinner”. The quote “old sinner” links in with the description of a villain as a sinner often someone who commits immoral acts regularly whilst disregarding Christian doctrine, considering the time the book was published (1800) committing a sin was a villainous act to do; therefore implying to the reader that Scrooge is a going to be a villainous character throughout the novel. When Macbeth is first introduced, Shakespeare chooses to present Macbeth as heroic archetypal male, completely contrasting with how Scrooge is presented as a villain at the
In 'A Christmas Carol', Charles Dickens represents Scrooge as an unsympathetic man who is offered the opportunity to redeem himself. Through the use of language, the reader is positioned to view him adversely, but during the journey of the morality lessons shown by four phantoms. In the form of an allegory, we will discover how Dickens demonstrates a defiant and isolated character in Stave One. In a Christmas carol, Dickens portrays his protagonist, scrooge, unfavourably. ‘Solitary’ is an adjective which Dickens implanted into the prose so that the readers could grow a stronger dislike for him as it infers that he is anti-social and unpleasant, ‘solitary’ also relates to Scrooge as he has the characteristics of someone in solitude.
In the story A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens there is this mean old man named Scrooge that hated everyone, his soul is black as the suit he wears in the movie. It seems as if he has lost his Christmas spirit. To help Scrooge retrieve his spirit back his deceased friend,and business partner Jacob Marley alerted Scrooge that three spirits past,present,and future would visit him all at different times. Late that night as the rain was pouring down,and the lightning was cracking Scrooge was sitting in his chair with such stillness you could hear a pin drop boom! boom!
The characters in the article Silas Marner, Ebenezer Scrooge, and The Grinch are driven by greed in such a way that the greedier they become, the less human they appear. At the end of their stories they all end with great happiness. They all become more generous at the end and they all seem to become human again (Yellow 2). People use the name Silas Marner and Ebenezer Scrooge for people that are a greedy (pink 157). Scrooge is a perfect example of a person that is a very greedy person (Green 1).