How Does Scrooge Feel The Sense Of Death In A Christmas Carol Essay

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Introduction A Christmas Carol is a written in December 1845 by Charles Dickens. This novel was based on the industrial revolution. Dickens shows Scrooge’s transformation going through both love and grief. The Ghost of Christmas past reminded Scrooge of a sense of festivity by showing him his old headmaster Fezziwig; the love in Bob Cratchit’s family made Scrooge analyze his life and it gave him grief; Scrooge had to experience grief, being a sullen old man, just experiencing love wouldn’t be as effective. He also had to experience love to revive his human feeling, his sense of care and empathy. Likewise, Scrooge had to experience fear because he needed to see that his actions affect everybody. Paragraph 1 Scrooge has to feel the sense of agony …show more content…

By exposing Scrooge to scenes where he sees Belle and another scene where he sees his own grave, Scrooge experiences both love and grief. ‘Spirit!’ yelled Scrooge ‘this is a fearful place. In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me. Let us go’ Scrooge just witnessed a dead left in a dark room with absolutely no connection with anybody. the fear Scrooge had to experience in order to choose alternative routes. ‘Spirit’ said Scrooge ‘I will honor Christmas in my heart… I will live in the past, the present and the future. When Scrooge found out that the dead man him, he got horrified because everyone was treating him awfully. Scrooge changed his was because of the fear and the feeling that no one is connected to him and no one will remember him once he dies. In this quote, we see that Scrooge truly regrets the way that he has been living and he is begging the ghost of Christmas past to grant him a second chance in life. If Scrooge hasn’t seen the love and gloom that this ghost has shown him he would’ve never thought about the footprints marks that he was

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