A Christmas Carol

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…

Music is a symbol in both “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, and in “The Old Nurse’s Story” by Elizabeth Gaskell. Music becomes a way to showcase that there is a problem within the households of the characters, Ebenezer Scrooge, from “A Christmas Carol,” and Miss Furnivall from “The Old Nurse’s Story”. In both stories the music played, centres on families and is shared through supernatural means. This later highlights the idea that both characters have behaved wrongly towards their families…

phenomenally sorrowful, dismal, person that is extremely oblivious to multiple of people in cruel, bitter ways. He absolutely despises all objects and feelings that include happiness and generosity, especially Christmas, accordingly the text states that people try to sing Christmas carols, but he made them leave. Two gentlemen from a local charity visited Scrooge at his office asking him for a donation to help the poor and he responded to their request with these words, “Aren’t there prisons and…

The classic tale of, “A Christmas Carol,” has various insights to be viewed and interpretations to the text, all of which a good story should posses. However, it establishes an inevitable them, to which most would agree, is that it’s never too late for redemption, derived from the shifting of personality traits from Scrooge after living a life of poor morals into a man with a heart of benevolence. These changes occur during the entire course of the story, and are caused by elements of guilt,…

One of my favorite traditions of the holiday season is the classic Charles Dickens story, “A Christmas Carol”. It’s been a ritual for us to see this play each year and as such, we make a special trip to San Francisco to attend this show at the American Conservatory Theater on Geary. However, this cultural critique assignment gave us the ideal reason to attend this performance locally. Although we have lived in the neighborhood directly behind campus for over eighteen years, we have never…

words such as "luscious", "cherry-cheeked", "seething" and "delicious", Dickens makes the food literally leap out of the page and make the readers mouth water. He is describing all the traditional food you have at Christmas and is making the point that Christmas is a time to feast and be merry. At this point, Scrooge slips in the comment that the Ghost's family -consisting of more than eighteen hundred brothers- must be "a tremendous family to provide for". We see…

when he wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843. The main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, has no warmth in his soul and seems to care only for himself and his money. As the story unfolds, Scrooge prepares to close his counting house on the evening of Christmas Eve. He nastily declines an invitation from his nephew for the Christmas meal the next day and voices his dismay at having to give his only employee, Bob Cratchit, the day of Christmas off. Scrooge wishes to pass the evening and Christmas day, in…

The plot of the story is not very different than the play. Characters are either similar or exactly the same. In the film, you are able to have a visual perspective of the story line. Scrooge seems to be more grumpy and in a Christmas-Bah Humbug, than displayed in the written format. (Dickens, 7) The old man is also extremely judgmental and blunt, with no regards for any other person’s feelings. An example of this is, in the beginning of the film, Scrooge’s nephew visits to invite…

don’t you realize there are other people who are the opposite of you, selfish. But some people can change this, as shown in this fictional story, a Christmas Carol, where the main character, Ebenezer goes through his past present and future in order to realize the mistakes he has made and how he can fix them. I believe the characteristic for A Christmas Carol’s Ebenezer is selfishness, as it shows throughout the story, from revisiting his past, reviewing the present, and witnessing an…

Most people would think that “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is about Christmas when it was originally written to prevent child labor. The novella tells the story of a wealthy and greedy man named Ebenezer Scrooge. He is not the nicest gentleman and he is mean to his poor servant whose name is Bob Cratchit. This book teaches us that money does not always make us happy. This message can still apply to us today. around the time that ACC was written, children did a lot of work in the mines…