How Does Scrooge Change In A Christmas Carol

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A Christmas Carol The Christmas Carol is a story of how a man got into the spirit of Christmas again. How he had three different ghost help him change, because of their symbolism. How they are dressed, their presences and the way they look, their characteristics and their behavior. They show Scrooge good and bad things, that he can be able to reflect and see in himself, or his past self. He goes to the past, present and future. They are all linked to Scrooges personal life, the very first ghost who visited him was his closest friend, Marley. He was in chains, and with a head wound, and he explained that he was always in the clothing and chains. Marley told Scrooge that the mistakes he made during his time alive, he is laying for it now that he …show more content…

Touches his heart, and gave him the ability to fly, and both of them fly out the window. The ghost takes Scrooge to the countryside where he grew up. The Ghost of Christmas Past is the first spirit to visit Scrooge. A curiously childlike apparition with a glowing head. He takes Scrooge on a tour of Christmases in his past. The spirit uses a cap to dampen the light emanating from his head. Since he has a childlike apparition, the story expresses that the ghost takes Scrooge to the past. Not just his past but his childhood, where the ghost can relate and help Scrooges heart soften up because of his child like apparently and his wisdom. The wisdom is also shown from the ghost, because of the way his head glows. SANTANA PAGE l The Ghost of Christmas Present is the second spirit to visit Scrooge. A majestic giant clad in a green robe. His lifespan is restricted to Christmas Day. He escorts Scrooge on a tour of his contemporaries’ Holiday celebrations. Since the ghost is on a throne of food, the symbolism this has towards the story is where the ghost takes Scrooge, to make a point to his visits. The ghost takes Scrooge to different Christmas dinner parties, festivals and other …show more content…

That represents that although they are surround by necessary things it is not what they want or think it's best. That is why this also represents to Scrooge's character. The Ghost Yet to Come is the quite ghost that visits Scrooge. Scrooge asks the ghost who he is, but he never gets an answer, he gets even more frightened. As the ghost takes him to the places where Scrooge is to learn his lesson, Scrooge is presented with three deaths. One is the death of a rich man, the second death is the death of a bad man that a family celebrates because they owed him money. The third death is the death of Tiny Tim. After they visited all of those people speaking, celebrating, and struggling about the passing of people. Scrooge didn't understand his lesson. Until the ghost took him to a churchyard and there Scrooge saw his grave. This ghost is presented as the grim reaper, always there were death is presented, or spoken about. He has no name nor a face to be identified. He is presented like a dark spirit, not having to do a hint, but his presences would just make a person squeamish. Scrooge begins go promise to honor Christmas from deep within his heart and to live by the moralizing lessons of Past, Present, and