How Does Scrooge Change Throughout The Novel

Throughtout the extract and the novel Scrooge undergoes many changes which are evident within the whole of the text. Charles Dickens states that Scrooge was ‘ tight- fisted at the grindstone’, which is done by Charles Dickens to convey Scrooge’s bitterness as being tight-fisted is usually a display of anger. This conveys the character of Scrooge from the beginning of the text in order to illustrate how long Scrooge has been a bitter character as Charles Dickens does this in order to imply that Scrooge has been quite a angered character for a large period of time, thus presenting Scrooge to be a agitated man. We then see a use of a long list of verbs used to emphasise Scrooge’s horrid attitude towards life as he is stated to be a ‘ covetous old sinner’, which is done to highlight Scrooge’s negative attitude, furthermore the word ‘sinner’ gives us impression that Scrooge is perhaps quite a ungenrous character as within the times Charles Dickens wrote this, many people would have been Christian and to be a ‘sinner’ you would be quite unkind to others( which goes against God). Thus, Charles Dickens is able to truly amplify this sense of bitterness through

This is first evident when we see him talking with the Ghost of Christmas past in which he is seen to be fairly scared at the sight of the ghost as he is sat in a ‘half-recumbent’ position, which suggets that Scrooge actually sees intrest in something other than ‘money’, which conveys a change in Scrooge. This change is also visible with the other ghosts, nonetheless it is more apparent at the end of the text in which we see him ‘laughing and crying’ with what seems to be joy. This exhibits change as previously the sight of Scrooge ‘laughing’ was very rare, additionally Scrooge’s views towards society conveyed in his cyncial behaviour as he wanted to ‘decrease the surplus population’ ,thus conveying his incredibly selfish