Byron Blum
1/17/23
Ms.McCarren Period 8
Scrooge and Marley Final Essay
In time, all things must grow and change, some just need a little push. In the play “Scrooge and Marley" by Israel Horovitz, Scrooge is a dynamic character by means of his change from a selfish person to a generous and giving one.
At first Scrooge was a selfish person that no one should have to be. 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.” This shows him being
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A piece of evidence supporting my claim is located in Act two, scene five, paragraph 21 “Come back with the man, Adam, and I'll give you a shilling . Come back here within five minutes and I'll give you half a crown”. This shows how generous he is, coming from the fact that he is giving a random person lots of money for an easy task, instead of making people work for an absurd amount of time. Another piece of evidence supporting my claim that Scrooge is a good person in act two comes from this quote of Scrooge talking to the portly man again in paragraph 53, “If you please not a farthing less A great many back payments are included in it, I assure you.” This shows that he changed because before in act one he denied the portly man any money but now by the phrasing “A great many back payments are included in it” it shows that he is not only giving the portly man money for the poor, but a lot of it. This shows that he went from selfish to generous because he is donating and that is a selfless