Scrooge also sees the miserable life conditions of the deprived and unfortunate. However both situations are shown as cheerful, in spite of being awful, in contrast to bitter Scrooge. He is then visited by the final Ghost, of Christmas future, who shows him his grave, as well as the community not being concerned about his passing, even auctioning his possessions and additional demoralising occurrences. Scrooge then comprehends the possibility that he may have already departed. However to his overwhelming ecstasy, he wakes up to discover that it is in fact Christmas Day, and sets about abetting the poor, including his secretary, and appreciating life and celebrating…
Ebenezer Scrooge was an old cold-hearted man. He didn’t like anything and loved to save his money even though he is rich. His nose is always bloodshot red. That is because he doesn’t want to spend the money to buy coal for a fire. Scrooge is always dressed up because of his work.…
To begin with, Scrooge is a mean person who has no love in his heart. In the exposition of the play Scrooge is a mean person. For example, when Scrooges nephew Fred wishes…
Scrooge was like before his encounter with the spirits. He seemed to only like money and work, and the only friend he had was his business partner Marley. He was vary rich man and didn’t use his money for charity or helping others. He didn’t even spend money for heating in his house! People who act like Scrooge, greedy, hates people, mean in general will most likely have a bad future.…
If Scrooge kept his terrible ways he would keep living a lonely and sad life. If he kept be so terrible he will die alone with no friends and family to be there with him when his final hours come. Since he became kind he got to spend time with his nephew on Christmas. He will now be joyful for the rest of his life because he changed. To people out there who have the same mindframe as Scrooge…
This shows how Scrooge doesn’t care about people or family he only cares about Money or business on Christmas. Another piece of evidence says,‘’ What's christmas Time but time for paying…
A common mindset among the rich of the Victorian Era was that those who suffered from poverty had only themselves to blame. The upper-class saw themselves as superior because of their money, and the poor were looked down upon and blamed for their condition. The rich refused to accept any responsibility to help the poor, or even be kind to them, seeing them as “another race of creatures bound on other journeys”. Dickens challenged this outlook, and was disgusted by it, so he wrote the novella A Christmas Carol with the intent to change people’s views of the poor and society’s responsibility to them. Scrooge, who represents the richer class, is introduced as the personification of winter, after which Dickens uses Fezziwig who is the antithesis of Scrooge as an employer; Bob Cratchit and his family; and Ignorance and Want, in an attempt to illustrate the need for a more compassionate society.…
Charity has a big role is the novel “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens and takes an apparent theme through the book. The concept of charity changes the main character Ebenezer Scrooge and his holiday spirit throughout a short time period. When Scrooge wasn't willing to donate to charity she was a bitter and rude old man. Throughout the three days where Christmas spirits visited him, he gained Christmas spirit and donated to charity which made him and overall happier person. In the beginning of the novel “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, Dickens is a miserable and bitter old man who is unwilling to donate to charity.…
“It’s one thing to be greedy. But it’s another thing to be too generous,” Scrooge whispered finally. “It seems that one must plant himself somewhere in the middle to be content in…
A Christmas Carol tells the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge a man who, despite the cheerful spirit of Christmas, turns to solitary and secrecy throughout this period. The selfish attitude Scrooge portrays correlates to the manifestation of four spirits that present themselves as a warning of what shall occur if he continues on the path of self-interest. Self-interest lives within all of us, it gives us the inclination to put ourselves in front of others. However the spirit of Christmas lives to curtail the selfish motives we all shelter. Scrooge becomes cognizant of his ambivalence regarding his selfish intentions and desire to promote charity.…
Ebenezer Scrooge is an old grumpy selfish miser who doesn’t care about others…
In the beginning of the novel, the reader views’ Scrooge as a very hateful cold person, who does not like Christmas because it is a time of the year people want handouts for the needy. Being the heartless wrench that he is he tells two gentlemen who want money for the needy “If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population” (Dickens 16). This quote will later come back to haunt Scrooge when he is introduced to Tiny Tim by the second spirit. Another example, of the survival of the fittest theory, is when Scrooge displays his coldness to his nephew, who stops by to visit him, on Christmas Eve by saying, “What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry?…
This cold and dark apparition leads him through the icy streets of London, it shows Scrooge several scenes of people. The foremost scene being a cluster of businessmen discussing the death of a fellow wealthy businessman in town and where his money is going. Their main topic of conversation is his money, whether or not they plan to go to his funeral is merely a secondary thought. They are his comrades, and all that’s in their minds are thoughts of greed. The second scene shown to Scrooge is a foul shop in the backstreets of London, where several vagabonds are selling this same businessman’s belongings, which they stole directly from his home while he was dead in bed.…
(Pg. 279) This quote by Scrooge is an example of how he is gentle with his words. He isn’t shouting in this scene like he is for most of the beginning of the book. This shows he becoming nice because he is explaining to the Ghost of Christmas Past that he is grateful for the happiness around him. This shows he is nice because nice people are grateful for things in their life but mean people aren’t.…
In the novel A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, there are many ways in which Ebenezer Scrooge is redeemed by Jacob Marley’s ghost and the three Christmas Spirits. The novel’s setting starts in London where there are serious world problems lurking. Dickens, throughout the novel, does not stray far from showing the importance of maintaining good humanity in one’s lifetime. Dickens depicts this through the main character, Scrooge, showing his redemption from the beginning and end of the novel. This theme reinforces the social values that humans should all follow and accept.…