“What else can I be? Eh? When I live in a world of fools such as this? Merry Christmas? Whats Christmas time to you but a time of paying bills without any money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer. If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”(Dickens 3) Scrooge was the man that spoke these words of disgust. He was a conceited, greedy, and selfish man that wanted all of the wealth for himself, but in the end a transformation would happen that nobody saw coming. First off, the drama had many different people of all personalities including the main character Ebenezer Scrooge. It also has all of the other main parts such as his nephew and the ghosts.” Nephew! You keep christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine. Keep it! But you don’t keep it, Uncle. Let me leave it alone, then. Much good it has ever done to you!” (Dickens 3) This is said as Scrooge was arguing with his own …show more content…
There is always little differences even if they are hard to find or notice. Between the movie and the drama the biggest difference noticed is the arrival time of the Past, Present, and Future. It states in the play, “ Expect the first one tomorrow, when the bell tolls one. Expect the second on the next night at the same hour.The third upon the next night when the last stroke of twelve has ceased to vibrate.” (Dickens 10) The drama does not include the poor people. It also does not have the meal during present or Scrooge talking to Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit’s son. While Scrooge is talking to the thin and portly man deal is disrupted in the movie but not the play. Aside the two formats it is also harder to visualize what is going on with the play and is much easier to see while watching the movie. Scrooge also seems more intense with his anger management and controls it more in the