...and effect bring change into the light over time. In “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley,” Scrooge starts off with the traits of being stingy, insensitive, and bitter. As it becomes evident, you must first realize why you must change before you can change. Act 1 shows that Scrooge is a bitter man and is cruel to others, but this trait begins to melt away as the story goes on. The beginning of Scene 2 shows Scrooge’s nephew coming to visit, but his appearance starts an argument about Christmas between him and Scrooge. In paragraph 23, Scrooge says “That, sir, is the only thing that you have said to me in your entire lifetime...
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...“Bah, Humbug!” The classical story of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens drew us in and gave us many of the character types and themes that we have today. In this classical story, the reader follows the life of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future as the ghosts try to cure Scrooge’s greedy nature. The modern story that uses the elements in A Christmas Carol is How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss. In this modern work, the reader follows The Grinch, a crabby old creature who tries to steal the Who’s christmas spirit and happiness. A Christmas Carol has become such an influential work that modern authors still draw upon the character types, conflicts, and themes found in Dickens’ traditional story. Firstly, there are the character types that are shared between A Christmas Carol and The Grinch. Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present are at Fred’s Christmas party. Fred and his guests are talking about Scrooge. “‘I am sorry for him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill...
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...The novel, A Christmas Carol, was written by Charles Dickens is about a man named Scrooge Ebenezer who is visited by four ghosts. The four ghosts helped him realize that he is not the best person he could be. One of the ghosts invites him to visit his own gravestone, and there he says ", Men's actions will affect certain ends, and if not changed, they must lead. But if changed, the ends will change. Say it is what you show me." Scrooge meant what he said and followed his own conclusion....
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...The Christmas Carol is about a greedy man named Scrooge, who only cared about money, and always wanted to be alone. But he has changed into a better person. However, he has learned that if he continues to be greedy, and selfish, then his life, eventually would not end well. Scrooge has seen how his relatives celebrate Christmas, and how he has changed, and how that will affect him in the future from the three ghosts of past present and future. Scrooge and Past visit his past when Scrooge was young. On the way, they stop by young Scrooge with a woman. She was unhappy because she knew that Scrooge adored his money more than her. The woman knew “even if he became wiser, than he wouldn’t change towards her” (Dickens 765). She has thought of...
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...Our eighth grade class watched the movie "A Christmas Carol." In this movie Ebenezer Scrooge says this quote," Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if preserved in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change." Which means every person will have a bad side and that some ends may change As Scrooge said this it made something pop into my head. That something is everyone has two sides, but they only show one. All of Scrooge's life he has put off Christmas. When the Christmas spirits come to visit Scrooge, he has no idea what is happening. Once the first spirit explains how Scrooge had been bitter and cold hearted over the years. The Ghost of Christmas Past told Scrooge that two more spirits...
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...In the novel, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is a rude, grumpy, mean old man. He thinks Christmas is a humbug and he doesn’t want to get in the Christmas spirit because he treasures his money and doesn’t want to spend one bit of it. Scrooge will be visited by three spirits throughout the book. The spirits will try to teach him a lesson and that he needs to change his ways before it is too late. In A Christmas Carol, the author Charles Dickens, shows that one’s business in life is helping others and being charitable through Scrooge’s experiences with the three ghosts. In Stave I, Scrooge thinks the definition of man’s “business” is money. This impacted Scrooge because he has become greedy and uncharitable. Scrooge does not care about...
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...Analysis Essay for Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol "Greed, Ebenezer Scrooge, wealth. Feel them. Know them. Yours was as heavy as this I wear seven years ago, and you have labored to build it since," wailed Jacob Marley in Frederick Gaines's adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (396). Burdened by his greedy life, Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner, is forced to wander the spirit world with no sense of peace. He warns Scrooge to change his selfish ways to avoid the same miserable fate. Marley's ominous warning sets in motion three life-altering journey through time for Scrooge with the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come. Ebenezer Scrooge, originally a greedy and heartless character, changes drastically after his ghostly experiences influence him to become a generous and caring man by the end of the story. In Scene I of "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge is a bitter and self-centered man. For instance, Scrooge's own nephew, Fred, asked Scrooge if he would join Fred and his family for dinner. Scrooge coldly denied Fred's invitation by saying "Nephew, keep Christmas in your own way…"(390)....
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...‘A Christmas Carol’ covers a period of 24 hours from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. It is a simple morality tale of the radical change in the character Ebenezer Scrooge from being bitter, iron fisted and miserable to becoming a new, openhearted and charitable man. The novel was first published in 1843, a time when many of the wealthy people neglected the old Christmas spirit of charity. In addition, the Industrial Revolution had further done away with the simple pleasures of the season. Dickens’ intentions in writing ‘A Christmas Carol’ were not only linked to his own childhood and sympathy for the poor, but he was also making an appeal to the rich people of society to mend their selfish ways. Dickens is able to show the change in Scrooge’s character by establishing what Scrooge is like at the very beginning of the story with the first two words he says: ‘“Bah! Humbug!’’ ’It is clear from the dismissive tone and the two exclamation marks that Scrooge has no patience with the idea of Christmas as a special time. At the start of the novel, Dickens is using Scrooge, someone who associates happiness with nothing but money, as a classic example of a wealthy person in the 19th Century. He does this with Scrooge inquiring of his nephew ‘“What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”’ Scrooge’s manor in saying this reveals certain elements of his character such as his shallowness and uncaring nature. In Scrooge saying this it demonstrates to the reader that Scrooge does...
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...Most people seem to know the story “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “The Christmas Carol,” but not many seem to compare them. The stories have quite different morals and main ideas, but they involve similar traits of each other. For instance, the characters are similar and different in many ways along with other traits. These two stories are similar because they both are about Christmas time. They both talk about how an angry man despises Christmas and will do anything to stop it. The Grinch actually tries to stop Christmas by taking presents and stealing anything relating to Christmas. Scrooge does not do anything in the sort of and instead ignores the idea of Christmas. He tries to act as if Christmas doesn't exist; he will not acknowledge...
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...A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Ebenezer Scrooge acts as the main character within this novel in which he is depicted as a “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, old sinner as self-contained and as solitary as an oyster”. He is incapable of relationships. However, throughout his life of suffering he is guided by the Ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas Present and of Christmas future. A Christmas Carol is a celebration of Christmas and the good it inspires. Scrooge was a cold and old disgruntled man that saw no purpose in life, wouldn’t accept changes, and wished to be alone. The heaviest rain, snow, hail and sleet were just like any other days that had no effect on him. Nobody ever stopped him in the streets to greet him or even ask what time of the day it was. The only relationship he had was with his lifelong business partner Marley, who had been dead for seven years when the novel began. He despises the poor and hates any part of life that is in relation to happiness or spending money. Scrooge’s appearance has been made very “cold and bitter”. For example, “his thin lips blue”. Scrooge’s personality attitude towards the poor is horrible, for example, when the charity guys come into the room and asked Scrooge if he wishes to make a donation he replies no, this makes the readers dislike Scrooge and disagree with the points that he has to make like, “it is a good thing that the Union work houses are still in operation”. Scrooge is a cold-hearted...
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...A Christmas Carol is a very deep story about a man named Scrooge who redeemed himself from being and mean old man who hates christmas to ok guy who likes christmas just like he did when he was just a boy. This redemption happened because of the three ghost who appear in the story of the christmas carol. The name of the three ghost were past, present and yet to come and they were named because of obvious reasons. The first ghost shows Scrooge the past and its visions of Scrooge loving christmas as a boy and this gets scrooge all teary eyed. The second ghost shows Scrooge how he is living and Scrooge doesn't like what he sees, he sees that he is just a mean old man and no one like him as a person. The last ghost is what really hits Scrooge the hardest....
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...J Hansen Mrs. Burnham Language Arts, Period 4 13 December 2016 A Christmas Carol: Literary Analysis Essay Have you ever thought about the Victorian Era and how different life is today? This is significant because there was so much tragedy and Charles Dickens wrote about it in A Christmas Carol. Truly the only way people survived was by caring. Charles Dickens grew up in the Victorian Era being very poor. He wanted people to realize how life was in the low social class in Victorian England, so he wrote A Christmas Carol. The story is about how Scrooge changes throughout the book, childhood innocence, and social justice. Scrooge’s personality and attitude from the beginning of the book to the end changed dramatically. Dickens also indirectly...
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...At the beginning of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is mean, ill tempered, truculent. He’s mean because in the story Cratchit burst into applause. Scrooge’s response to this is “Another sound out of you, and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your position.”(4) He’s ill tempered because in the story there are few kids singing God Rest Ye merry gentlemen. Scrooge’s response will seizing a ruler to this is “ get away from here , you! I didn’t ask to be bothered with that.”(6) He’s truculent because Fred his nephew said i fell in love. After that Scrooge repeated said “good afternoon.”(4) Scrooge changes from these traits through experience with the ghosts of the Past, Present, and Future. First the ghost of Christmas Past visits Scrooge...
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...don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Many people believe that this is a great way to live life. This perfectly resembles Ebenezer Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. In the story, Scrooge realizes he does not like the outcome of his life, so he changes his attitude. For example, he learns to love and appreciate his family instead of treating them with disgust and shame. Sadly, for most of the play, Scrooge is a greedy, rude, self-centered man. Slowly, he realizes that to change his future he needs to change his attitude. Sooner or later, the lessons of the three spirits who visit him kick in, and he learns that he needs to...
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...Ebenezer Scrooge is the most miserly, upset, and cross person you will ever meet in your entire life. The story, A Christmas Carol is about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from his cruel attitude towards Christmas and people. This story shows the reader that if you give to someone, they will give back to you. In the story, A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is miserly and hogs his riches. He does not like to partake in any parties or celebrate any holiday of any kind with his family and friends. After his visit with two spirits who show him some mistakes he made years back that led him to these feelings, he realizes that if he did not alter his mistakes and attitude, it would lead to sorrow and multiple deaths. Because of the spirits he then grew more attentive to the people around him and the days that they spend working for their family. This shows that the spirits improved his awareness. I think it helped out scrooge big time. Before scrooge’s hauntings, he was upset. While scrooge has his visit with the ghost of Christmas...
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