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A christmas carol character analysis of scrooge
A christmas carol character analysis of scrooge
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Scrooge How/Why
How and why does Ebenezer Scrooge change throughout “ A Christmas Carol?” Scrooge changes after seeing himself dead in the future. There are several quotes throughout the story to help prove this. This essay will show only three of these, one from the beginning, one from the middle, and one from the end. Scrooge thought he would never change, but it turned out that he was wrong.
In the beginning, some might say that the ghost of Jacob Marley is what caused the change. Well it couldn’t have been Jacob Marley because when Jacob first visits Scrooge and tells him that three ghosts will come to haunt him Scrooge has no change and just says “ I think I’d rather not,”. This shows that he didn’t change because if he had changed than he would he would have said something like, “ Oh, Marley, my old friend I’m so glad you came to see me. Even if you’re a ghost, I’m still delighted to have you here. Merry Christmas Jacob, Merry Christmas.” Jacob visiting Scrooge didn’t make any difference at all.
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In the middle, some might say that him seeing hearing that Tiny Tim is what caused him to change.
Well, this also isn’t true because when he hears that Tiny Tim would die if he didn’t change he does say, “ No, no,” “ Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.” After this, though, Scrooge completely forgets about it and continues on with the spirit. If he had changed at that moment he would have said something like this, “ No, I can’t let this happen spirit, I can’t, please spirit free me from this nightmare so I can save this little boy.” If Scrooge had changed at that moment Tiny Tim would have had a larger dinner and wouldn’t have to suffer the way he
did. In the end, Scrooge finally changes after seeing his own grave. After Scrooge sees his grave he says, “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 shutout the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I can sponge away the writing on this stone!” Scrooge later keeps his promise when he says, “ I don’t know what to do! I’m as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!” After everything he had seen before it finally takes seeing his own grave to convince him to change.
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
If Scrooge did not change his mean old ways, then he is only to look
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In this essay I am going to distinguish the personality of Scrooge also show you how he was at the beginning of the novella in the 1st Stave to how he changes at the end in the 5th Stave.
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Just like the play, Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in the story. He is a mean, cold-hearted man that has no Christmas spirit whatsoever. All that Scrooge cares about and will ever care about is his wealth until he is taken on a journey. He is lead by 3 ghosts of his past, present, and future as he was in the play. These ghosts show him what Christmas spirit is and try to force it upon him. All of this finally hits him once he is taken to the future and witnesses his own grave. Scrooge pleads for a second chance to change his bad ways. Once he wakes up in his bedroom after all of this craziness, he jumps for joy and makes many new friends while mending with some old friends. He fixes many of his wrongs and lives out the rest of his life as a happier, friendlier, and a generous
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In this essay I am going to distinguish the personality of Scrooge also show you how he was at the beginning of the novella in the 1st Stave to how he changes at the end in the 5th Stave.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly, cold – hearted money leader, who continues his stingy and greedy ways on Christmas Eve. He rejects a Christmas dinner invitation from his own nephew, Fred, and all the great things and tidings of the holiday, from his cheerful and gentle nephew, Fred. When the night falls, Jacob Marley, a former business collaborate with Scrooge, who has been dead for seven years, come to visit him in form of a spooky ghost with chains over his body. Marley’s spirit has been wandering since he died as a punishment for being consumed with business and not with people while he still was alive. He has come to warn Scrooge and maybe even save him from the same destiny. Marley tells Scrooge that Three Spirits will come to
Do you believe a person can change? Well, in the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol” we see Ebenezer Scrooge change from a cold and heartless old man to a warm soul ready to spread Christmas joy. In the exposition of the plot we are introduced to Scrooge a miser as people call him, a cold and heartless man. He runs the business Scrooge & Marley’s. But his partner Marley is dead, seven years dead to be exact. On Christmas eve, he is visited by his nephew, the nephew wishes him a merry Christmas, and scrooge to that replies “Bah! Humbug!” ‘Christmas a humbug” the nephew answers, after arguing some more, Scrooge states “What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and
First Marley is dead, and scrooge pay to the mortician. Scrooge went to his office and his nephew Fred came to visit him and invited him to dinner. Two portly men came to Scrooge’s office asking for a donation and Scrooge told them that poor people had to go to prison, to workhouses, or die. He went to his home and he was visited by Marley’s ghost or spirit. Marley told him he had to be more generous and three spirits were going to visit him. The spirit of Christmas past woke him and visited him and showed
In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a transformation as a result of his encounters with three ghosts and becomes a kind, happy, and generous man. His greedy, cruel, and grumpy demeanor is replaced seemingly overnight, but he doesn’t just wake up and decide to be nice. It takes three Spirits to change his outlook on life - The Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future. The Ghost of Christmas Past makes Scrooge begin to regret his selfishness, and the Ghost of Christmas Present begins to teach him about others. This second Ghost helps to make him realize that money doesn't buy happiness. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, however, teaches the most profound lesson of all: unless he changes, no one will care if Scrooge dies. Because of the Ghosts, by Christmas morning Ebenezer Scrooge is a completely different person from the man who went to bed on Christmas Eve.