Do you ever wonder what our business is as humans? Ebenezer Scrooge is a man who no one enjoys being alone. He does not understand our true business in life. Scrooge thinks our true business is to make money. In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens shows that one’s business in life is to make other’s lives better through the transformation of Scrooge’s emotions.
The theme of the supernatural is a big part to the story of A Christmas Carol and therefore is always reoccurring in many variations mostly in the form of ghosts or spirits coming to communicate with the protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge. The theme of the supernatural is important as during the 19th century, religion was a principle factor in the lives of most people and the topic of ghosts, ghouls and spirits was generally frowned upon so this creates a significant impact on the reader. During the 1st Stave of A Christmas Carol, it is explained to the reader that the door knocker at the front door to his house has morphed to resemble the face of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. This is an important occurrence of the theme of supernatural as it is told to the reader at the very beginning of the novella that “Marley was dead”. This instils to reader the possibility of Scrooge hallucinating.
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.
In the play, “The Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge was very rude throughout ¾ of the story. Towards the end he brightened up for once and was very nice surprisingly. Everyone saw him as an ungrateful and grumpy man who had no Christmas spirit whatsoever. Everyone else was up to the spirit and so excited and he always was rude and miserable and made it roll off of some others.
(1) In Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol, the characters help develop the theme, kindness and thankfulness are the keys to happiness. Contrasting Scrooge to other characters in the novella proves this theme. (2) A kind and thankful character is one who values family over wealth and is grateful to others. Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, and Scrooge’s dynamic character best prove this theme. (3a)
In the beginning of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge’s view on Christmas is negative and he is characterized as being unsympathetic, uncharitable, grouchy. To begin, there are three different spirits who visit Scrooge at various times in the night. The spirits help make Scrooge realize the consequences of his actions and they change Scrooge's view on Christmas. For example, Scrooge is visited by the Spirit of Christmas Past who shows him his childhood and the actions that made him who he is now. As Scrooge observes the past he is filled with regret and wants to re-choose to do things.
The Christmas Carol is a story of an old miser that cares nothing of Christmas, until an old friend of his warns him of the terrible things that might happen if he doesn’t change his ways. He also warns of three other being that will be visiting him throughout the night. The spirit of Past, present, and Future. Although some might make the claim that either Past or Future were the most influential to Scrooge’s thoughts about Christmas. The Spirit which is most influential in Scrooge’s transformation is Present.
A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens is a cautionary tale where the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, changes from a grumpy, reclusive man into a happy and appreciative. His old business partner, Marley, visited Scrooge and informed him that three spirits would visit him. The three spirits: The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come helped Scrooge realize how cruel he is and transforms him into a cheerful man. A Christmas Carol takes place in London, England during the joyous Christmas season in the Victorian Era (1840s). Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold, mean-spirited and miserly man who is the owner of a London counting-house.
This story could seem like it was about an old man named Scrooge who doesn’t like Christmas. The ghost takes him back to his happy old memories, which boosted his mood and changed his spirit about Christmas. This indeed did happen, but that is not what the story was about. Dickens wanted the viewers to take a deeper look and see how the upper class treated the poor and the major issues of poverty. Also, Scrooge was an individual who struggled with his identity inside, as Matthew Arnold explained.
The ghost of Christmas past, present, and future(Dickens 9,10). As Marly leaves and the ghost of christmas past comes, Scrooge at first is very frightened. The ghost then tells scrooge to touch her robe and they magically travel to the old past when they see Scrooge as a young school boy where they can see how Ebenezer’s father really hated him because his wife died giving birth to him. Now Scrooge’s dad blames him for it(Dickens 13,14,15). The spirit next takes him to his teenage years where scrooge sees himself as a young happy and poor boy at a dance party with his long time girlfriend.
The ghost of Christmas present took Scrooge to a place in London where people who were less fortunate lived At a lighthouse, two men “joined hands over the rough table at which they sat, and they wished each other a Merry Christmas” (Dickens 6.1). Those people had to work on Christmas, but they made the best of it and had their own Christmas. The ghost of Christmas Present also took Scrooge to his nephew’s house. At his nephew’s house, they were playing a game and Scrooge’s nephew was thinking of something while the other had to figure out what it was. He was thinking of “a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and lived in London.”
The Change of Scrooge “Feelings change, memories don’t.” Joel Alexander After visits from three ghosts, The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future, Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist in the novella, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is changed for the better. Each ghost makes an impact on him in several ways. The Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge influential scenes from his younger days.
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
“The righteousness of the blameless keeps his ways straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness”(Prov. 11:5). The story, “A Christmas Carol”, is about a cold-hearted man named Scrooge who transforms himself into a jolly, kind man when three Ghosts teach Scrooge about the spirit of Christmas. In the story, Charles Dickens illustrates the theme of how no one is past redemption through the transformation of Scrooge’s personality by the lessons of the Spirits. At the beginning of the story, Scrooge’s selfish personality is revealed, and the Ghost of Christmas Past comes and shows him the memories and truth of his life long ago.
When the ghosts started coming he started changing , each time one ghost came he changed little by little . In the book “ a christmas carol “ by charles dickens , the theme is influenced by the process of change by scrooge 's character , and the ways he changed through the ghost 's appearance in the story. In the beginning of The story, Scrooge’s selfish behavior is evident until he meets the Ghost of Christmas Past. Two charitable
