A Christmas Carol
“Ignorance and want are man’s children and for the time being ignorance has doom of you, written upon his brow.”(Dickens 26) Ignorance consumes a man and all he is worth. Sure, he has money, but what else may a rich, greedy man like that say of himself. May he say he is loved, may he say he is popular among his peers. No. This man may come out on top, but he has no respect for what the simple pleasures of family bring and, as far as I’m concerned this man, Scrooge, lives a lugubrious life. What is the cause of this? One word ,that everyone needs to run from, ignorance. This paper will show you how A Christmas Carol’s play and movie portrayals of Past, Present, and Future can be conveyed in similar and different manners, in addition you’ll see a change of attitude occur. In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (play) Marley, Scrooge’s …show more content…
We begin this story in a relatively similar manner, going on as well. Jacob Marley appears to Scrooge and gives news of three spirit’s Past, Present, and Future’s arrival. Scrooge doesn’t believe that any of this is real, but soon finds himself waiting for the first spirit. PASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPast When Present finaly does come he is found in the very same way. Present then takes Scrooge to the Cratchit’s home, his assistant's, for Christmas dinner and he is informed of the same fate for Tiny Tim. Future is, as in the play, last to come. Scrooge sees again the people giving no respect to the dead man and asks Future whom they speak of. Future responds the same and Scrooge is whisked to the graveyard only to find his name upon a grave in the empty expanse. Once he is able to process what he has seen he knows if know change is present he will live eternity ALONE. At Scrooge's home Christmas morning he awakes and starts giving to charity, providing a real Christmas dinner to the Cratchit’s, and much
“Ignorance and want are man’s children and for the time being ignorance has doom of you, written upon his brow.”(Dickens 26) Ignorance consumes a man and all he is worth. Sure, he has money, but what else may a rich, greedy man like that say of himself. May he say he is loved, may he say he is popular among his peers. No. This man may come out on top, but he has no respect for what the simple pleasures of family bring and, as far as I’m concerned this man, Scrooge, lives a lugubrious life. What is the cause of this? One word ,that everyone needs to run from, ignorance. This paper will show you how A Christmas Carol’s play and movie portrayals of Past, Present, and Future can be conveyed in similar and different manners, in addition you’ll see a change of attitude occur. In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (play) Marley, Scrooge’s …show more content…
We begin this story in a relatively similar manner, going on as well. Jacob Marley appears to Scrooge and gives news of three spirit’s Past, Present, and Future’s arrival. Scrooge doesn’t believe that any of this is real, but soon finds himself waiting for the first spirit. PASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPASTPast When Present finaly does come he is found in the very same way. Present then takes Scrooge to the Cratchit’s home, his assistant's, for Christmas dinner and he is informed of the same fate for Tiny Tim. Future is, as in the play, last to come. Scrooge sees again the people giving no respect to the dead man and asks Future whom they speak of. Future responds the same and Scrooge is whisked to the graveyard only to find his name upon a grave in the empty expanse. Once he is able to process what he has seen he knows if know change is present he will live eternity ALONE. At Scrooge's home Christmas morning he awakes and starts giving to charity, providing a real Christmas dinner to the Cratchit’s, and much