'I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer,' urgues the Ghost of Jacob Marley (Dickens 30). The Ghost Of Jacob Marley came to Scrooge to warn him, trying to open his stone heart, to change his life of selfishness and greediness. The Ghost wanted to show Scrooge that the true happiness is in giving and in making other people happy. In the similar way as the Ghost of Jacob speaks to Scrooge, so the Ghost of Goodness, Love, Compassion, Forgiveness speaks to us. He comes to us in people, in situations, in things around us. Similarly, Barbox from the short story Mugby Junction. He ends up at the Mugby Junction in the middle of the night. He is lost, he does not know where or in which direction he should go.
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An analysis of the way Scrooge, the protagonist of Christmas Carol, and Barbox, the protagonist of Mugby Junction, react to their encounters demonstrates that Charles Dickens uses both characters to tell similar stories about true happiness, where and how people can find it, about the importance of being good to each other even the others are not, to grow in love to others around us and that is never too late to do that. 'It is required of every man...that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen' (Dickens
An analysis of the way Scrooge, the protagonist of Christmas Carol, and Barbox, the protagonist of Mugby Junction, react to their encounters demonstrates that Charles Dickens uses both characters to tell similar stories about true happiness, where and how people can find it, about the importance of being good to each other even the others are not, to grow in love to others around us and that is never too late to do that. 'It is required of every man...that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen' (Dickens