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Analysis of charles dickens christmas carol
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“Morning Mr. Scrooge.” says Bob Cratchit. “Hmph.” replies Scrooge. Scrooge sits down at his substantial desk, filled to the brim with currency. “WHY HELLO UNCLE SCROOGE!” I jump, oh look it’s Fred, Scrooge's nephew. I suddenly fall asleep but suddenly get awoken by humongus yelling coming from Fred and Scrooge. “Merry Christmas Uncle!” yells Fred. “Bah humbug!” Scrooge yells back. Yet even after saying that Fred says again, “Merry Christmas… said Fred but Scrooge interrupts. “BA HUMBUG!” Scrooge shouts. “AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!” I just about have an heart attack well at least an ear ache, after all that. Just when I thought it was over here come two very plump men come walking in. “Oh what now.” I say. “Is this the Scrooge and marley …show more content…
office?” says one of the men. “Marley has been dead these past seven years, he died seven years ago this very night.” Scrooge says darkley.
I didn't quite hear what the other man said but I could tell it angered Scrooge. “Nothing!” Scrooge said with a stern voice “You wish to be anonymous?” The other man replied “I wish to be left alone.” said Scrooge. My mom covered my ears for a reason I don’t know, but I’m guessing it’s what scrooge said. Soon enough them men left and it went quit again. After awhile I heard footsteps I look up and I see Bob, he's going to put us in the light! Oh Happy day! Happy day! “What do you think your doing Cratchit?” Scrooge says snarkily “Just going to fuel the fire, sir.” Bob hoping to not cause a scene. “Why would you do that?’ Get back to work.” Scrooge grumpily. It went quiet again everybody left, Bob later like …show more content…
usual. “Time to go to bed sweetie.” My mom says with a sweet tone.
“But mom!” I reply. “No buts!” she says sternly. “Ok ok, I’m going.” I reply again I slowly drift to sleep thinking of that cute girl I saw today, I think her name is Jill… It’s the next day, I look at the clock, no Cratchit! This is not good, this is really not good! I hear scrooge barge in acting like usual, he realises cratchit isn't here and goes to his desk. Cratchit finally comes into the office and tries to sneak to his desk and start working. Its didn’t work. “What do you think your doing here so late Cratchit?” From Scrooge. “I was having a party last night for Christmas, sir.” Responded Cratchit. “Partying… hmph, now let me tell you something to party about, I am… giving you a raise!!” yelled Scrooge. Wait a second, is that Scrooge or an imposter! I’m getting very scared right now. “Oh why thank you sir, may I ask why this is?” Cratchit said wonderingly “Don’t fret go get another coal bucket for the fire!” “OH why that’s amazing sir, I will get on that right now.” Its been awile since we’ve seen any other coal, I’m very excited. Next thing I know here's Cratchit with more coal. “Wait a second? Is that… Tom? OH MY GOODNESS, IT IS TOM! Tom oh brother, you've been gone for
years! Next thing I know I hear rumbling under me, was I chosen? OH why now? I’m thrown into the fire… “TOM! NOOOO… GOODBYE TOM I’LL MISS YOU!”
After the previous spirit disappeared, Scrooge looks up to find the final spirit, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The phantom remains silent and simply takes Scrooge toward the city, where they eavesdrop on a few conversations between people. One of them was between two men who were talking about how someone had recently died. They retorted about how nobody liked the man and, consequently, they expected nobody to show up to the funeral. The twain continued to another pair of businessmen who had also heard the news that someone had died, but did not care. Scrooge, oblivious as to who they were talking about, tries to ask the spirit some questions, in which the spirit doesn’t respond. The phantom just drags Scrooge to a nearly abandoned
After Fred leaves, two gentlemen come to Scrooge and ask for money for the poor. His response is, "Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses? Are they still in operation?" One of the gentlemen replies, "They are. Still, I wish I could say they were not." Scrooge's remark shows that he doesn't care about poor people. He does not care if they live or die, just as long as he is comfortable. The two gentlemen are shocked by this.
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
According to the text, Scrooge is such a miser that when his partner, Jacob Marley passed away, he didn’t spend the money to change the business sign outside their production to reflect his partner’s death, instead he left the sign to swing alone mysteriously camouflaging Marley’s passing. In the reading, his nephew, Fred, comes to invite Scrooge to Christmas dinner with his family, Scrooge, in turn responds, “Bah! Humbug! The text describes Scrooge as a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone. Based on what I have read in the text, foreign heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge, he was a man whom felt no warmth or wintry climate, even the winds of the winter chill did not affect his inner self or his outermost surroundings. The text states that Scrooge is all head, no heart, a miserable, bitter old miser.
This turning point is different than the rest because it is shown to scrooge that the cratchit also has a family and everybody else does too. They care for their family but they need help. Scrooge needs to help them and his own family. The ghost of christmas present them the shadows of christmas present. The cratchit family is a happy family who respect and love what and what they have. Cratchit walks in with tiny tim on his shoulder. He has crutches and a brace on his leg. Cratchit is afraid that he might die. Show in this line
He is taken to the streets of his town. Scrooge sees three businessmen discussing his funeral. They say that they thought he would never die. They also say that they will only go to his funeral if there is food there, but if there is no food they don't plan on attending. Nor, do they even think that there will be a funeral because there will be no one willing to pay for it because he was such an awful person. Scrooge is unable to put two and two together to figure out that this was what was going to happen to him. He thought that they were talking about his ex business partner, James Marley. Next, Scrooge sees people discussing things that they would want to sell for money. They then begin discussing how they had taken it off dead Scrooge’s body after he had died. They explain how they had taken the very clothes he was wearing right off of his back and just left him there. They took everything they thought they could make money off of. Scrooge, while watching the scene, realizes that this is an awful thing to happen to someone, but still does not understand that it is him that they are talking about. Finally, Scrooge is taken to his grave with the Ghost Of Christmas Future. The ghost points at the grave and gestures for him to get in it. Scrooge pleads, and pleads with the spirit to allow him to live, and after a while of begging, the ghost shakes a little bit and puts his finger down. “Spirit, this is a
Scrooge’s mistake were really only caused by greed and loneliness. The spirit of christmas past showed him of his ex-fiance who left him. She said that she felt that she was second to his money. This basically means that he was so attached to his money that he wasn’t realizing her feelings. In addition to that he had lost the only woman he had ever loved. Making him an even more bitter and lonely person. Though even with that loss he lost his only friend the only one who actually understood him. He also made the mistake of being so greedy to the point where he wasn’t paying his employees enough money for them to barely get by. He also didn’t let his clerk get any coal for his fire even if it small enough to be seen as one coal. All in all Scrooge
Fred, Scrooge’s nephew (Scrooge’s sister’ son) visited him. He invites Scrooge to Christmas dinner with his wife and friends. Scrooge replies, “Good afternoon!”; “Bah! Humbug!”; “I live in a world of fools.”; What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”
Scrooge’s journey through time holds the key to his change of character as it provides him a unique perspective to reexamine his mistakes in his past and present, and to foresee a deeply unsettling vision in his future. For instance, his trip to the past forcibly makes Scrooge to re-experience his distant memory. When he painfully witnesses his neglected childhood and his treatment to his finance, “Scrooge said in a broken voice, ‘remove me from this place.’” Even though it may seem too cruel for Scrooge to revisit the past that he wish to forget, it is his past that shapes his miserly character now; therefore, confronting his past is an essential first step to drive him to change. As the story progresses to his last trip with the Spirits of Christmas Yet to Come, Scrooge finally acknowledges the necessity of his internal transformation when he confronts the end of his wretched life. “He cried, tight clutching at its robe, ‘hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope?’” Similar to other time-travel novella, the implication of time travel in A Christmas Carol lies on the confrontation and discovery of the traveler’s identity. Even in some time travel books that focus on beyond the
Scrooge learned a lot of lessons and started to enjoy Christmas again. One lesson that he had learned was to turn his life around and be happier with life. He also learned that what the third spirit had shown him would happen if he did not change his life
The scene occurs when the Spectre takes Scrooge to Bob Cratchit’s residence. In both versions, Scrooge sees Bob’s family mourning Tiny Tim’s death. Tiny Tim’s father, Bob, in particular, is very sad about his son’s death. He reminds himself many times, that he still has several other wonderful children. The filmmakers of both movies most likely kept this scene to keep emotion in the story. Since the movies are so filled with chaos, it is probable that they did this to connect with the viewers on an emotional level. In addition, it is also apparent that they did this to draw the viewers into the story and make them feel close with the characters through
The ghost then moves on to two people meeting and they mention someone called “Old Scratch” who died during the night. Him and the apparition leave the two men conversing and heads to an obscure part of town. The specter walks into a building with Scrooge trailing behind to see people give item to an undertaker for money, nevertheless they see the people hand items to the undertaker with one going as far as to take the bed sheets from under the dead body. Scrooge sees and hears everything while completely horrified by what he is watching. He tells the ghost, he knows the possibility it might be him. Knowing this, scrooge is now shaking and pleading that it’s not him. The apparition teleports them to a bed with the bedsheets taken off and Scrooge seeing this gets away from the bed in terror. Terrifyingly the ghost points to the head of the body on the
When the spirit of Christmas Present arrives to show Scrooge things happening at the current time, Scrooge is more open to what the spirit has to say because he has realized that he does need to change the way he treats others. Scrooge is shown images of Bob Cratchit’s family and Scrooge’s nephew and his fiancée. Bob’s family does not have much and they do their best to provide for the children. Tiny Tim, the youngest, is not a strong child and if not given the proper medicine he will die. Scrooge begins to wish he paid Bob a bit more that Bob might be able to afford the treatment Tiny Tim needs to grow strong again. Scrooge is taken to Fred’s house to observe Fred and his friends, fellowshipping on Christmas eve. Fred tells his friends about how he invites his uncle Scrooge to Christmas dinner every year and every year Scrooge refuses. Fred states that he will continue to present the invitation even though Scrooge wants nothing to do with him. This causes Scrooge to regret how he has spoken to Fred and he decides that he will attend the dinner after all. The spirit leaves Scrooge by showing him Poverty and Ignorance embodied in the forms of malnourished children. He warns Scrooge to beware of them, then leaves Scrooge in the hands of the final
And in that dinner there would go the family. When Scrooge heard that he said, that Christmas as a humbug and that day would not exist. Fred insisted him but nothing made Scrooges decision changed. Finally Fred leave the office and go to his dinner very happy. Then he with his friends family and all of them started to insult Scrooge because he did not came to the dinner and when the ghost of Christmas present showed how was the dinner of Fred’s family started insulting him and after that he decided to change.
The Ghost of Christmas Past describes Fan as a “delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered…but she had a large heart” (Dickens n.pag). The spirit is explaining to Scrooge that Fan was pure and delicate. She never fails to lift Scrooge’s spirits and “had a heart of gold” (Holden). Fan is always kind to everyone and makes Scrooge feel loved when he does not have a mother or a father to love him. One day Fan comes up to Scrooge and starts kissing and addressing him as “dear brother” (Dickens, n.pag.). This is when she is telling him that he will finally be able to come home for Christmas. Fan becomes ecstatic that her brother will have the opportunity to come home. This particular scene of Fan makes Scrooge happy both as a child and while he is reliving it with the ghost. Without Fan in his life, he no longer has anyone to help him be content. After her death, Scrooge turns his grief and anger towards anything that reminds him of her. This includes Fan’s son, Fred. In Stave I, Fred wishes Scrooge a Merry Christmas and Scrooge tells him that he has no reason to be merry because “he’s poor enough” (Dickens n.pag.). Scrooge constantly treats Fred poorly and fails to let go of his sister’s passing, even when Fred is nice to him. Fan’s passing causes Scrooge to be cruel to Fred because he no longer has her lighting up his