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Greed In A Christmas Carol

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In the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the main character is Ebenezer Scrooge. A Christmas Carol is set in London, England on Christmas Eve where we first meet Scrooge. Scrooge is a character who dislikes the holiday season and tries to find ways to not be involved in them. Scrooge's hatred of Christmas is because of his life experiences that have happened throughout the years. His childhood was filled with loneliness and he would spend Christmas alone, his fiance, Belle, left him one Christmas because Scrooge was too greedy and loved money more than her and everything else. Before meeting the ghosts, Scrooge could be described as greedy because he doesn’t give regard to the feelings of others, but afterward, Scrooge could be described as selfless because he grows to not hate Christmas and becomes more accepting of others. …show more content…

Scrooge had a cold heart and became lonely because of it. In the book, two men come to Scrooge’s door asking for donations to accommodate the poor, to which Scrooge replies by saying he wouldn’t help and that “If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population” (Dickens 9). Scrooge saying this shows how bitter and cold-hearted he is to people in need. Scrooge feels no remorse for saying these things. In Stave I Scrooge is an unhappy man. Fred feels bad for Scrooge because his money has caused him to be greedy and pushed him away from happiness and the people he loves. Fred says, “His wealth is of no use to him. He don't do any good with it. He don't make himself comfortable with it. He hasn't the satisfaction of thinking” (Dickens 73). This shows how even Scrooge's family considered him to be a selfish and unhappy man and not just people who didn't know

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This is prominently shown in one paragraphs 63 and 64 “Portly Man: But sir Mr. Scrooge…think of the poor. Scrooge: Take your leave from my office, sir, while I'm still smiling.” This demonstrates Scrooge as a selfish person because he is stingy with his money even to the less fortunate. In addition to the previous quote In Act one Paragraph 10. “ Scrooge: If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled on his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”

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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.

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In the first stave, Scrooge, although he is wealthy, is such a miser that he won 't even allow his clerk to have enough coal to keep him warm. He insists on saving money by burning only enough coal to keep a small flame glowing whether the heat that it puts out is sufficient to keep the clerk warm or not. Scrooge 's greed is his downfall because he is so consumed with his money that he neglects the people around him, and when all is said and

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Scrooge lives in a ‘gloomy suite of rooms in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing hide and seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.’ Scrooge’s personal loneliness is reflected through the personification of his residence and tells the reader that whereas Scrooge used to be somewhat jolly (pg 56-57), he has lost his way and has forgotten the way out, and has now turned into a gloomy miser, representing what most rich men would have gone through in Dickens’ time. (because

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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.

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Scrooge lived every day in fear and that fear desiccated his soul. However, I do not think that Scrooge is sympathetic because his past does not have anything to do with other people. He should have never acted the way he did because he was cruel and mean to the people closest to him. My evidence clearly shows that he isn’t sympathetic and the actual reason he changed was because the Ghost of Christmas Future told him he was gonna die unless he changes, so that fear made him change, which is a selfish act because he only did it for himself. This can be seen when he says “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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The story A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, is a story about a rich old man who had a deep hatred for Christmas and everything involved in it. Scrooge shows that he redeems himself, and proves that he's changed throughout the story, through his generosity to the poor, his generosity to Cratchet, and through his newfound love for christmas. To begin, Scrooge shows he redeems himself through his thoughtfulness and generosity for the poor. Scrooge wakes up on Christmas Day in a joyous and delighted mood, “And will you have the goodness —-here Scrooge whispered in his ear.(66)” When Ebenezar is approached by the portly men he gives them lots of shillings to help them and the other poor out.

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This also reflects Dickens' message that money doesn’t buy happiness because Scrooge was rich but unhappy. Scrooge represents the rich in this novel since he is always mentioning money as well as bringing up how much others owe him. Scrooge was unsympathetic towards other people, he showed no interest in helping the poor. He refused to donate to charity, because he thinks he's done enough by paying taxes to support the prisons and workhouses. An example from the novel is that Scrooge’s nephew, Fred said, “His wealth is of no use to him.

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