Do you want to here a story about the biggest jerk that ever lived, but then completely changed his life around? The main character Ebenezer Scrooge in the play “A Christmas Carol” written by Charles Dickens is a story that shows that no matter how mean and rude to people you can always change if you want to. I think that Scrooge is self-centered and grumpy at the beginning of the story, then is very giving at the end. I think Scrooge is self-centered because he doesn't care at all about anybody or their feelings. Scrooge is grumpy because Fred wanted to invite him over but he didn’t care. Scrooge is giving because he gave poor children money. Ebenezer Scrooge is self-centered and grumpy in the beginning, but in the end is very giving. First, …show more content…
On page 253 Fred says “A Merry Christmas, Uncle! God save you!”. then Scrooge responds with ‘Bah! Humbug!” this proves he is grumpy because his nephew said “Merry Christmas” and Scrooge told him that he doesn't care and he needed to go away. On page 254 Scrooge says “Nephew, keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.”. Scrooge told Fred that he was not going to celebrate Christmas with him and was trying to be nice and Scrooge told him to go away. The next reason why he is so grumpy is when he said “ If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”. There was a person collecting money for the poor. Scrooge asked if there were no prisons. The gentleman collecting money at the door said that they would rather die than go and Scrooge said that they should hurry up and do …show more content…
He is now giving and nice to others. Scrooge was very self-centered but then changed his ways and now cares about others feelings. Scrooge was grumpy all of the time, but at the end he jumped out of bed very excited that it was Christmas and that he was going to celebrate Christmas with Bob Cratchit and his family. Ebenezer was giving at the end of the story, he gave poor kids money, and helped save the Cratchits. We don't really know if he stayed that way, he changed because if he didn’t he would have died. Scrooge changed his ways even though he acted like he was a bad person that makes him a dynamic character. I think that no matter how bad, rude, and awful you are you can always change because you control yourself. You can make a choice to be kind or not. Scrooge needed to realize what he was doing to himself in order to change and be kind to other
Scrooge hates christmas, but he doesn't see the love and joy in it, because he is filled with greed. “Fred: A merry christmas to you uncle! god save you. Scrooge:Bah! Humbug!” this is just one example of how scrooge is so negative, and that greed has taken over. This also shows how Fred is filled with love, and is merry and happy even though he is pore. Unlike Scrooge who is financially loaded and miserable. But will Scrooge ever be burdened or punished by his greed? he doesn't think so. Jack marley, his partner certainly was. on page 396 he rises from the dead as a spirit to teach Scrooge a lesson. “ You will walk where I do, burdened by your riches.” This statement shows how being greedy is not a good thing, and it will haunt you, if you
Dickens displays guilt as the main form of how Scrooge’s character develops into a compassionate person by the end of the novella. As Scrooge feels this quilt, it's purely based on the visions that the ghosts provide which further causes Scrooge to realise the consequences of his actions. His alienation from specific characters that he used to love such as Belle, “...has displaced me…” whom left Scrooge, due to his desire for money and wealth which grew. This desire grows with him as he is rejecting the christmas joy and spirit as he continuously states that Christmas is a “humbug,” but by stating this it provides comparison. Dickens depicts that Scrooge has become a better person because of fear but in the end he has become kinder. As the
Scrooge was and owner of a factory and made a whole bunch of money, but he did not care about anyone else. “Merry Christmas said his nephew, what right do have to be merry you are poor enough”. This shows that scrooge is mean to family and does not care about Christmas.
In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Scrooge's selfish, cold, melancholy nature is contrasted with Fred, Scrooge's light-hearted nephew. At the beginning of the novel, Fred and Scrooge are complete opposites, but, as the novel progresses, they become more and more alike. Throughout the novel, Dickens uses Fred to show Scrooge's transformation from a cold, unfeeling man to a man of warmth and compassion.
Ebenezer Scrooge is the major character in the story, A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol is about how a “cold-hearted, tight fisted, selfish” money grabbing man is offered an opportunity of a life time, to change his behaviour, attitude... to have a second chance in life.
In the beginning of the play in spite of being selfish Scrooge is also cheap, cold-hearted, and cruel. Scrooge behaves in this manner to his nephew, Fred. One way of proving this is when Fred said “Merry Christmas.” Scrooge replied salty saying “Humbug Christmas is just a time for spending and wasting money.” Not only he treats Fred badly but many more people. For instance take one of his quotes towards the Gentleman Visitor, “Are there no Jails for the poor, are there no
“hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse.” “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!” (Dickens, Stave 4, Page 84) Finally, Scrooge changed for good.
On page 64, we see how Scrooge shows sympathy in the quote, “There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something. That 's All.” After being shown a memory of himself as a boy, Scrooge regrets being harsh to the boy caroling and not giving him any money. Seeing his own sadness as a child made him realize it would have been nice to give the boy something to make him happy. He will probably do nicer things in the future because he now realizes that the boy would have been upset because of how Scrooge turned him away so harshly. He is changing his actions, and regretting bad actions in the past. He wants to fix what he did wrong, and he feels sympathy for the boy. People want to be shown compassion, so in the future if he helps people out and is kind, he will not be as isolated. Another quote to show how he becomes less detached from humanity is on pages 92-93, ‘”Spirit,” said Scrooge, “Tell me if Tiny Tim will live.” Scrooge feels sorry for Bob Cratchit because the spirit says if the future remains unaltered he will die. He feels upset that Tiny Tim will die, and sympathy for Bob because his son will probably die. He probably regrets not giving Bob more time with his son. He had made a comment earlier that if someone will die they better go and die to decrease the population, when the donation collector
Without realizing his mistakes through his memories, Scrooge would have never wanted to change. For example, at the point in the story before being visited by the spectors, Scrooge had no fervor for Bob Cratchit’s poor family, as demonstrated by Dickens on page twelve. “‘It’s not convenient,’ said Scrooge, ‘and it’s not fair. If I was to stop half a crown for it, you think yourself ill used, I’ll be bound?’” But, by the end of the novel, Scrooge learns to be sympathetic. Dickens uses the following quote to show that Scrooge grew from his regretful mistakes and became less relentless and much more kind on page one hundred twelve. “‘I’ll raise your salary, and endeavor to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a bowl of smoking bishop,
He is like Victor and chooses to be isolated for how he treated others. For example, Scrooge says, “I wish to be left alone. Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry” (Dickens 16). Scrooge is showing the reader that he is an ungrateful and a non-friendly man. The author wants us to know that he has no Christmas sprit and is selfish man that is also very stingy with his money. He also is rude to the people that come to his store. Charles Dickens describes him in A Christmas Carol as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel has ever struck generous fire; secret, and self contained, and solitary as an oyster” (Dickens 12). This description of Scrooge shows that he is a very negative person, that chooses to isolate himself, and keeps things all to himself. He does not care about anyone other than money and himself. He loves money and also watching his clerk; “the door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk” (Dickens 13). Scrooge was always watching what his clerk was doing; he was not a friendly guy. There is an example of this in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein also, where Victor was being watched constantly by the monster, everything victor did the monster was watching. Scrooge
When we first met Scrooge, we are informed, and also observe that he is cold, miserly, and bitter. However, after the visit of the Ghost of Christmas future, Scrooge changes into a generous and cheerful man. It is clear that something must have caused a man who is really nice, turn into a mean and nasty person, in this case it was the Industrial Revolution.
First, Scrooge is taken to when he was a little boy and still in school. He is shown himself when his sister comes to see him and tells him that he is able to come home. He remembers how much he loved his sister and the Ghost of Christmas Past reminds him that she had a child, his nephew. Scrooge regrets the way he treated him earlier and now knows he should have been kinder. Next, he sees a young version of himself at work, working for Fezziwig as an apprentice. He remembers how much he enjoyed working for him and realizes how he treats Bob Cratchit. He realized that he needs to treat Bob with the same respect that Fezziwig gave him. Lastly, he is taken back to when his ex-fiance is breaking up with him. He watches with horror as she lists all the reasons why the relationship would not work out. When his fiance stops speaking and is heading for the door, he pleads to his younger self not to let her go, and not to be such a fool, but it was no use as he was technically not there and not able to be heard. All of these scenarios show that Ebeneezer is on the road to becoming a kinder person, but we still know he is not quite there yet. I know this because when speaking to ghost of Christmas Present he says, “I went forth last night on compulsion, and learnt a lesson which is working now. Tonight, if you aught to teach me, let me profit by it.” (664) This
“Bah Humbug!” was what the grumpy character Ebenezer Scrooge said about Christmas. Guess what that got him: a visit with four ghosts Past, Present, Future, and his dead partner and friend Marley. A Christmas Carol is the tale of a rude, irritable man called Ebenezer Scrooge whom loathes Christmas and anything to do with it. His encounter with the ghosts changed his perspective on how to treat people and the way he lives his life. This is shown in both the drama and the movie, but there were some parts of each that were different. However, the message of the story stayed the same.
Meeting the Ghost of Christmas Past begins the first stage of Scrooge’s transformation: regretting his actions. When Scrooge is shown his younger self alone in his classroom on Christmas, he regrets chasing a Christmas caroler away from his door. The Spirit skips ahead a few years to show him a happier time. His sweet little sister Fan arrives to take him home, and this is his first Christmas in a long time that is spent with family. Unfortunately, Scrooge doesn’t see it that way; seeing this scene makes him “uneasy in his mind” as he thinks about the way he treats his nephew Fred. Instead of treating him like his only family member, Scrooge denies invitations to Christmas dinner every year and is rude whenever Fred speaks to him. He doesn’t have time to dwell on this for long, however; Scrooge has many other important things to think...
beginning of the story Scrooge was a crusty old man and at the end of