A Christmas Carol Similarities

Greedy and abhorrent personalities are things that can lead to arguments and people disliking you. Greedy people tend to be a more lonely person because no one likes people that want too much but never give anything themselves. In A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, the story is about an old man named Ebenezer Scrooge who never cares for anyone and wants nothing to do with Christmas. There is a play and movie for it which have a lot of similarities, but only a few differences. Both of them have the same plots, climax, and scenes that lead to the main story.

In the play, A Christmas Carol, the climax is revealed when Scrooge travels with the spirits from his past, present, and future and he finds out that in the future he will die and no one will care about his death (Dickens, 7-12). He vows he will change the way he treats people to live a better life. He donates things to other people and does good deeds for the rest of his life. The main conflict in the play is when Scrooge is lonely and he only cares about himself.

Scrooge makes the people work through the holidays, only caring about himself. He hates Christmas and is full of hatred whenever someone speaks to him

about the Christmas celebrations and spirits (Dickens, 2-3).

In the motion picture, A Christmas Carol, the conflict, climax, and resolution is exceedingly similar.

Scrooge wears fancy clothing and a short-tempered look (Video, 1984). The conflict similar to the play’s, is that Scrooge is a selfish and greedy man,caring about himself only. Scrooge is grumpy during the holiday season because he just wants to be left alone. The spirits past, present, and future travel through Scrooge’s life, looking from a different person’s perspective of how they view Scrooge to be like (Video,1984). Scrooge gets really scared when he sees his grave and his coffin in a empty funeral home. Once he finds out it is Christmas, he scurries through the streets to make generous donations to people. He lives out the promises of the spirits for the rest of his

life.

Despite some major similarities, both the play and film have very few prominent differences. In the play, it was harder to see how much Scrooge disliked Christmas in the beginning. In the film, the spirit is a woman instead of but in the play’s script the spirit is a man (Video, 1984). Scrooge talked about his first love in a more detailed explanation in the film than in the drama. The characters varied a lot between the two because the film didn't have quite as much characters as the drama and mainly focused on the more important characters. Marley was introduced at the beginning of the story in the drama but in the film he was introduced later on, having a ghastly appearance while wearing rags and chains tied onto him.
In conclusion, both the film and drama are extremely similar. There were very few differences between the drama and the film. Though, the lesson taught in the story was greed leads to selfishness and loneliness. The spirits of Christmas past, present, and future taught Scrooge to not only care about himself but as well as other people.