Compare and Contrast Essay There are many similarities and differences to “A Christmas Carol” the play and to “A Christmas” the movie. How many similarities and differences are there in the play and in the movie, well you are just going to have to read to find out. “A Christmas Carol” is about an old grumpy man who is seen the joy that christmas brings to all.
The play version starts out where Marley (A friend of Ebenezer Scrooge) is telling us about him and Scrooge. Then we see Scrooge and other men in his office. When Scrooge goes home and wakes up at one o’clock, he is visited by the ghost of christmas past to show him his past. While visiting the past, Scrooge remembers his younger sister and how he loved her. They then move to where he was apprenticed by his old master Fezziwig. Scrooge and past go to when he fell in love but didn't get married. The ghost of Christmas past leaves and Scrooge wakes in his room. Soon the ghost of christmas present comes. They travel to Bob Cratchit (An Employee of Scrooge) house. Bob has a lame child and Scrooge asks present if the child lives. Present says “If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die”. (Dickens, 22). Present and Scrooge then travel to his Nephew's house. Present leaves Scrooge and the Future comes. He takes him to 3 men who talk about …show more content…
One of the differences in the movie and from the play is that Marley comes later in the movie (Carol 1984) than from in the play. A difference from the play to the movie is that Tiny Tim shows up in the beginning of the movie (Carol 1984) then from the play. Another is that Tiny Tim and his father go see the children play (Carol 1984) in the movie unlike in the play. A difference from the play then in the movie is that 3 business men are thinking about attending Scrooge’s funeral and are wondering who he gave all his money to. (Dickens 27). But in the movie the mention none of them at
The play version starts out where Marley (A friend of Ebenezer Scrooge) is telling us about him and Scrooge. Then we see Scrooge and other men in his office. When Scrooge goes home and wakes up at one o’clock, he is visited by the ghost of christmas past to show him his past. While visiting the past, Scrooge remembers his younger sister and how he loved her. They then move to where he was apprenticed by his old master Fezziwig. Scrooge and past go to when he fell in love but didn't get married. The ghost of Christmas past leaves and Scrooge wakes in his room. Soon the ghost of christmas present comes. They travel to Bob Cratchit (An Employee of Scrooge) house. Bob has a lame child and Scrooge asks present if the child lives. Present says “If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die”. (Dickens, 22). Present and Scrooge then travel to his Nephew's house. Present leaves Scrooge and the Future comes. He takes him to 3 men who talk about …show more content…
One of the differences in the movie and from the play is that Marley comes later in the movie (Carol 1984) than from in the play. A difference from the play to the movie is that Tiny Tim shows up in the beginning of the movie (Carol 1984) then from the play. Another is that Tiny Tim and his father go see the children play (Carol 1984) in the movie unlike in the play. A difference from the play then in the movie is that 3 business men are thinking about attending Scrooge’s funeral and are wondering who he gave all his money to. (Dickens 27). But in the movie the mention none of them at